With the new MacBook Pro’s Release their is not a usb or a dvd drive
How would you access the Thunderbolt ports on them because my new Mac has 6 Thunderbolt Ports
I bought a USB to thunderbolt adapter but not all use objects Can access the computer , problem some type
of driver could be written, any idea’s
I have no idea what you’re talking about. The latest 16" MacBook Pro has 4 Thunderbolt ports, not 6. And using them is as simple as plugging something in. Get a device with a USB-C connector, plug it in, and it works. The device could be USB or Thunderbolt, but they both use the same connector. There’s no drivers or any such nonsense. You can get adapters to convert an old USB-A connector to a USB-C connector, but there are MANY cheap chinesium models out there, so beware.
External DVD drives work with USB adapter on the MacBook Pro just fine.
I have one from Apple as well as another one for Blu-ray disks.
What about Blu-Ray external old USB drives ?
No problem with a cheap USB-C adapter.
Mine is a Samsung (SE 506) /USB2
And yours ?
Buffalo BRXL-PC6U2, but it was manufactured in 2014. I guess your Samsung is older, maybe 2012?
Possibly, bit I get it at the same time as my MacBook Pro, 2014-12 
The USB-C is Thunderbolt 3.
Older Thunderbolt which used the Minisplay port was 1 or 2. That is the one I had on my late 2011 21" iMac. It is not compatible with the new interface.
I do not get your point, Michel.
Also, your link (click on it to get the below text):
Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name.
[quote=495947:@Emile Schwarz]I do not get your point, Michel.
Also, your link (click on it to get the below text):
Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name.[/quote]
The right paren got cut off in the url Thunderbolt
TB 3 and 4, on the newest macs, are blazing fast (40Gbit/sec)
[quote=495945:@Michel Bujardet]The USB-C is Thunderbolt 3.
Older Thunderbolt which used the Minisplay port was 1 or 2. That is the one I had on my late 2011 21" iMac. It is not compatible with the new interface.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderbolt_(interface)[/quote]
And does weird stuff with an adapter.
I have a Thunderbolt Display, which includes a USB-2 dock, so naturally I have a bunch of stuff hanging off it, including my Time Machine disk. Everything worked with a Thunderbolt 2 Mac.
However if the 16" MacBook Pro is backing up to Time Machine while the machine is meant to be asleep, I can’t use the display (it won’t wake) until Time Machine has finished backing up. If often happens when I take a break, so I come back to work, but can’t do much until Time Machine has finished.
I guess I need to buy more dongles and stop using the display for external drives, or buy a new display and more dongles to connect my drives to that display.
[quote=495962:@Sam Rowlands]And does weird stuff with an adapter.
I have a Thunderbolt Display, which includes a USB-2 dock, so naturally I have a bunch of stuff hanging off it, including my Time Machine disk. Everything worked with a Thunderbolt 2 Mac.
However if the 16" MacBook Pro is backing up to Time Machine while the machine is meant to be asleep, I can’t use the display (it won’t wake) until Time Machine has finished backing up. If often happens when I take a break, so I come back to work, but can’t do much until Time Machine has finished.
I guess I need to buy more dongles and stop using the display for external drives, or buy a new display and more dongles to connect my drives to that display.[/quote]
I just upgraded from an Apple Thunderbolt Display to an LG Ultrafine 5K, and wish Id done it sooner. I recommend it if you can afford it. I wanted the XDR, but just couldnt see myself spending that kind of money on a monitor.
My setup is a 2017 15 MBP with a CalDigit TS3+ and the LG 5K plugged into that. I just wish the 5K had a TB port for daisy chaining.
I miss that (SCSI and other daisy chainings)
In my current MacBook Pro, I had a DVB TV) adapter (in a USB Hub + the Mouse 27MHz) and the remainding USB2 port for the external(s) hard disk.
Daisy Chain vs swap ?
Daisy Chain !
TB3 and TB$ support daisy chains
And they’re fast as heck
NVME external SSD’s are pretty much a requirement for those ports
[quote=495968:@Norman Palardy]TB3 and TB$ support daisy chains
And they’re fast as heck
NVME external SSD’s are pretty much a requirement for those ports[/quote]
Thunderbolt has supported daisy chaining since v1, but not all devices actually support it. The LG Ultrafine 5K I was talking about has only one TB3 port, so no daisy chaining. I was looking at maybe getting an eGPU, but most don’t support it. The BlackMagic one does, but I hadn’t seen one where I could bring my own video card. Not worth it anyway, but that’s not really my point at the moment.
[quote=495947:@Emile Schwarz]I do not get your point, Michel.
Also, your link (click on it to get the below text):
Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name.[/quote]
Thanks for the advice, but at this moment in time and as the display works mostly, it’s not really an option.
If I have to get another display, I’d go for one of the Acer ultra-wide displays, may not be Retina, but the ultra-wide aspect ratio would really help my workflow. Having two Xojo windows side by side is rather cramped on a 27" display (The inspector got really fat with API 2.0).
One of these + a 24 & a 27 + 16" MBP pro screen
Pixels galore