Which macbook pros are USB 3.0 compatible?

is it possible to put a thunderbolt port into my 2010 macbook pro? even if soldering is nessesary

Uh, no....
However the 2012 line of MBPs have usb 3.0 ports.  Second, usb 3.0 is backwards compatible, but it operate at the slower usb 2/1.1 speed of whatever type of usb port it is attached to.

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