Apple Inc. Thunderbolt - two ways of downloading and installing the driver

Thunderbolt is a Chipset hardware device. This driver was developed by Apple Inc.. The hardware id of this driver is PCI/VEN_8086&DEV_151A&CC_0880.

1. Apple Inc. Thunderbolt driver - how to install it manually

1. You can download from the link below the driver setup file for the Apple Inc. Thunderbolt driver. The archive contains version 6.1.8100.0 released on 2021-10-19 of the driver.
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3. Start the driver installer file from a user account with administrative rights. If your UAC (User Access Control) is started please confirm the installation of the driver and run the setup with administrative rights.
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5. Go through the driver setup wizard, which will guide you; it should be pretty easy to follow. The driver setup wizard will analyze your computer and will install the right driver.
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7. When the operation finishes restart your computer in order to use the updated driver. As you can see it was quite smple to install a Windows driver!
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This driver is digitally signed by Apple Inc..
Driver file size: 10275 bytes (10.03 KB)
This driver was installed by many users and received an average rating of 4.5 stars out of 79458 votes.
This driver is fully compatible with the following versions of Windows:

• This driver works on Windows 2000 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows Server 2003 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows XP 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows Vista 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 7 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 8.1 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 10 64 bits
• This driver works on Windows 11 64 bits

2. Installing the Apple Inc. Thunderbolt driver using DriverMax: the easy way

The advantage of using DriverMax is that it will setup the driver for you in just a few seconds and it will keep each driver up to date, not just this one. How easy can you install a driver using DriverMax? Let's see!

1. Start DriverMax and push on the yellow button that says ~SCAN FOR DRIVER UPDATES NOW~. Wait for DriverMax to scan and analyze each driver on your PC.
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3. Take a look at the list of detected driver updates. Scroll the list down until you locate the Apple Inc. Thunderbolt driver. Click on Update.
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5. Enjoy using the updated driver! :)
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