We picked one up and wanted to also compare it to Apple's last-gen Thunderbolt 4 Pro cable. The newly-released Thunderbolt 5 Pro cable isn't cheap. It will run you $69 for only a meter in length.

That means you're going to start seeing Intel Thunderbolt 5 ports replacing the old Thunderbolt 4 jacks on Windows 11 laptops and MacBooks packing the new Apple M4 chip inside ... that requires you to ...