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Before USB-C if I forgot or lost my laptop charger I was totally screwed. After USB-C I can even charge my MacBook with my Nintendo Switch charger, and I can a

by Closi 5y ago

Before USB-C if I forgot or lost my laptop charger I was totally screwed. After USB-C I can even charge my MacBook with my Nintendo Switch charger, and I can always find someone that’s got one spare in the office. I’m so done with those incompatible circle-pin chargers!

peterbraden 5y ago
You may brick your macbook as the switch charger doesn’t follow the spec. This is exactly the problem.
- MAGZine 5y ago
  this is literally the problem with any specification then, because there is nothing stopping anyone from not following the specification for a particular port and just doing whatever the fuck they want. I could hook a lightning cable up to a car battery, and you'd blame the connector.
- jeroenhd 5y ago
  If it bears the USB logo, the charger should be standards compliant. The switch charger will charge your devices just fine. The switch console, however, has a non-compliant USB port, which can be damaged when hooked up to a standard USB-PD charger; the pins can get mechanically shorted. Blame Nintendo for that one.
- Closi 5y ago
  Hasn’t done anything like this yet, it works perfect. I’ve charged my MacBook with all sorts of USB-C chargers with no issues, including from USB power banks (I was never able to charge my laptop from a standard portable external battery before usb-c!).
Izkata 5y ago
Be careful with that and don't even try the other way around - you can brick your Switch: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/08/heres-why-nintendo-switch-consoles-keep-frying/ https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/08/heres-why-nintendo-sw...
- TillE 5y ago
  You think an Apple USB-C charger is gonna randomly send 9V to a device which doesn't ask for it? This story is about wildly out of spec junk hardware.
- DHowett 5y ago
  The article you linked reports that third party docks—not cables—can cause an electrical short in the Switch. OP should be fine plugging in their Switch via spec-compliant cables.
- Closi 5y ago
  No problems yet either way around!

by Closi 5y ago

peterbraden 5y ago

You may brick your macbook as the switch charger doesn’t follow the spec. This is exactly the problem.

MAGZine 5y ago
this is literally the problem with any specification then, because there is nothing stopping anyone from not following the specification for a particular port and just doing whatever the fuck they want. I could hook a lightning cable up to a car battery, and you'd blame the connector.
jeroenhd 5y ago
If it bears the USB logo, the charger should be standards compliant. The switch charger will charge your devices just fine. The switch console, however, has a non-compliant USB port, which can be damaged when hooked up to a standard USB-PD charger; the pins can get mechanically shorted. Blame Nintendo for that one.
Closi 5y ago
Hasn’t done anything like this yet, it works perfect. I’ve charged my MacBook with all sorts of USB-C chargers with no issues, including from USB power banks (I was never able to charge my laptop from a standard portable external battery before usb-c!).

Izkata 5y ago

Be careful with that and don't even try the other way around - you can brick your Switch: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/08/heres-why-nintendo-switch-consoles-keep-frying/ https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/08/heres-why-nintendo-sw...

TillE 5y ago
You think an Apple USB-C charger is gonna randomly send 9V to a device which doesn't ask for it? This story is about wildly out of spec junk hardware.
DHowett 5y ago
The article you linked reports that third party docks—not cables—can cause an electrical short in the Switch. OP should be fine plugging in their Switch via spec-compliant cables.
Closi 5y ago
No problems yet either way around!