ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Thunderbolt

Thunderbolt is like a magic wire for computers that makes them go really fast and do lots of things at once. It's like a highway that lets lots of cars (data) travel really quickly between two places.

Sometimes when you want to plug things into your computer, like a camera or a hard drive, you have to use different wires and they can be slow or not work very well together. Thunderbolt helps solve that problem by letting you plug in lots of different things all at once and they can all work together really quickly.

Thunderbolt is also special because it can work with really high-quality videos and pictures and they will look really beautiful on your screen. It's kind of like a special way to make sure everything looks really good and works really well when you use it with your computer.

Overall, Thunderbolt might just seem like a wire, but it's actually a really powerful tool that helps your computer be really fast and efficient when you're doing lots of things on it.
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