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<blockquote data-quote="Randy B. Singer" data-source="post: 1915421" data-attributes="member: 190607">There is no such thing.&nbsp; You can piggy-back a dock and an adapter, and it may or may not work.&nbsp; But it would be so expensive to try that you probably wouldn't even want to.&nbsp; See:<a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/265917/using-a-usb-c-dock-with-older-macbook-pros/267009#267009" target="_blank">https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/265917/using-a-usb-c-dock-with-older-macbook-pros/267009#267009</a>In practice, your iMac was designed to allow you to attach a 5Gbps USB 3.0 external hard drive .&nbsp; That's not too shabby.&nbsp; It's not as fast as current USB interfaces, but it's about 6 times faster than the fastest Firewire interface.Apple didn't complicate anything.&nbsp; Thunderbolt 1/2 interfaces were never really intended to be a way to attach external hard drives.&nbsp; (USB hard drives were, and still are, the standard.) They were an updated way to attach higher resolution monitors.&nbsp; (Thunderbolt 3/4 is more of a multi-function type of interface.) Also, when Apple designed Thunderbolt 1/2 interfaces, they likely had no idea that someday they would be providing Thunderbolt 3/4 interfaces with USB-C connectors on their Macs.&nbsp; Unless you seriously are upset that Apple wasn't omniscient, your only beef is that third-party adapter developers never thought that it was financially feasible to design and offer Thunderbolt 1/2 adapters that would allow you to attach Thunderbolt 3/4 devices to your now obsolescent Macintosh.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Randy B. Singer, post: 1915421, member: 190607"] There is no such thing. You can piggy-back a dock and an adapter, and it may or may not work. But it would be so expensive to try that you probably wouldn't even want to. See: [URL code="true"]https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/265917/using-a-usb-c-dock-with-older-macbook-pros/267009#267009[/URL] In practice, your iMac was designed to allow you to attach a 5Gbps USB 3.0 external hard drive . That's not too shabby. It's not as fast as current USB interfaces, but it's about 6 times faster than the fastest Firewire interface. Apple didn't complicate anything. Thunderbolt 1/2 interfaces were never really intended to be a way to attach external hard drives. (USB hard drives were, and still are, the standard.) They were an updated way to attach higher resolution monitors. (Thunderbolt 3/4 is more of a multi-function type of interface.) Also, when Apple designed Thunderbolt 1/2 interfaces, they likely had no idea that someday they would be providing Thunderbolt 3/4 interfaces with USB-C connectors on their Macs. Unless you seriously are upset that Apple wasn't omniscient, your only beef is that third-party adapter developers never thought that it was financially feasible to design and offer Thunderbolt 1/2 adapters that would allow you to attach Thunderbolt 3/4 devices to your now obsolescent Macintosh. [/QUOTE]

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