Can I Use a Thunderbolt 3 Device With a Thunderbolt 2 Mac?
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We’ve all been there. Haven’t we? When your perfectly fine Mac becomes an oversized paperweight because everything has been updated and your computers no longer play nicely with hard drives, apps, or other peripheral devices.
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