I guess a deep dive would have had to get into more gritty details about USB-PD? Or maybe show how they crammed all the requisite capacitors and heat dissipato

I guess a deep dive would have had to get into more gritty details about USB-PD? Or maybe show how they crammed all the requisite capacitors and heat dissipators into the thing. It did answer my question, though, which was "how do they pull that much power over a USB-C cable?" A: USB PD 3.1 allows up to 48V * 5A to be supplied so long as the cable has the right e-marker on it. Though honestly, I would be careful trying to get deeper than that. The USB standard has become a bit of a spaghetti mess. Unless you are building your own equipment or trying to daisy-chain some DisplayPort stuff through some Thunderbolt 3 hubs you're probably better off thinking of it as `capabilities(USB network) = min(capabilities(computer), capabilities(cable), capabilitieS(hub))` and then dropping 50$ for a nice cable that you can brag to your friends about ("ALL MY POWER, PERIPHERALS, AND VIDEO OVER THIS ONE [insanely overengineered] WIRE WOOHOOQ") Anyway, my two cents are that I'm glad they kept the new power brick mostly-the-same-dimensions as the old ones so that my 3D-printed gridbeam-mountable power brick holders[1] continue to work. [1] https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5400078 https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:5400078