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My Apple USB-C charger and cable (which came with my 2017 MacBook Pro) work fine to charge my Switch. No crashes here.

by Reason077 9y ago

ebikelaw 9y ago
My thinkpad charger and the charger of my Nexus 5X also work without trouble.
voidpointer 9y ago
Unfortunately, it cannot power the dock. That was a bit of a letdown for me
bluedino 9y ago
Apple's USB-C chargers skirt around some standards, as well.
- tcas 9y ago
  Out of curiosity which standards? The only one I can think of is providing a slightly higher voltage (but still within USB-C spec) to account for resistive losses in the cable. That's why it says 61 watts instead of 60.
- gumby 9y ago
  Can you say more? Thanks.
  - bluedino 9y ago
    Apple uses a non-standard 14.5V @ 2A PDO unit in the smaller MacBook charger, they also have some protocol-level 'quirks'. https://plus.google.com/102612254593917101378/posts/ftb7qCZfPQf https://plus.google.com/102612254593917101378/posts/ftb7qCZf...
    - gumby 9y ago
      That's quite interesting, as in the last 20 years that I've been dealing with Apple hardware they have typically been excessively strict with hardware spec conformance (not especially "liberal in what they will accept"). They of course had plenty of in-house stuff (adb, AUI etc) back in the pre-jobs-departure and pre-jobs-return eras, but that was often because no standard existed at all. I wonder if something has changed or if this is an outlier, or perhaps it's just my sampling (which of course is hardly enormous) has simply entirely fallen in a pool of strictly conforming equipment. I can certainly believe the last possibility.
minimaxir 9y ago
The distinction here is powering the Switch in portable mode vs. powering it via the Dock. Per discussions on Reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/87vmud/the_switch_is_not_usbc_compliant_and_overdraws/ https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/87vmud/the_...), portable mode draws the expected 5V so it should work with USB-C compliant chargers, but the dock draws more. (although the article says the 87W charger crashed the Switch, I haven't seen that either) There's also discussion about the new 5.0 update being buggy and compounding the issue.

My Apple USB-C charger and cable (which came with my 2017 MacBook Pro) work fine to charge my Switch. No crashes here.

ebikelaw 9y ago

My thinkpad charger and the charger of my Nexus 5X also work without trouble.

voidpointer 9y ago

Unfortunately, it cannot power the dock. That was a bit of a letdown for me

bluedino 9y ago

Apple's USB-C chargers skirt around some standards, as well.

tcas 9y ago
Out of curiosity which standards? The only one I can think of is providing a slightly higher voltage (but still within USB-C spec) to account for resistive losses in the cable. That's why it says 61 watts instead of 60.
gumby 9y ago
Can you say more? Thanks.
- bluedino 9y ago
  Apple uses a non-standard 14.5V @ 2A PDO unit in the smaller MacBook charger, they also have some protocol-level 'quirks'. https://plus.google.com/102612254593917101378/posts/ftb7qCZfPQf https://plus.google.com/102612254593917101378/posts/ftb7qCZf...
  - gumby 9y ago
    That's quite interesting, as in the last 20 years that I've been dealing with Apple hardware they have typically been excessively strict with hardware spec conformance (not especially "liberal in what they will accept"). They of course had plenty of in-house stuff (adb, AUI etc) back in the pre-jobs-departure and pre-jobs-return eras, but that was often because no standard existed at all. I wonder if something has changed or if this is an outlier, or perhaps it's just my sampling (which of course is hardly enormous) has simply entirely fallen in a pool of strictly conforming equipment. I can certainly believe the last possibility.

minimaxir 9y ago

The distinction here is powering the Switch in portable mode vs. powering it via the Dock. Per discussions on Reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/87vmud/the_switch_is_not_usbc_compliant_and_overdraws/ https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/87vmud/the_...), portable mode draws the expected 5V so it should work with USB-C compliant chargers, but the dock draws more. (although the article says the 87W charger crashed the Switch, I haven't seen that either) There's also discussion about the new 5.0 update being buggy and compounding the issue.