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It seems Gallium Nitride are quite the revolution in power density for charging equipment

• LazyMans 3y ago
  I now own two Anker GaN chargers. They're awesome. I carry this single little 70 watt brick, 1x usb-a 2x usb-c ports. Charges everything. Even my macbook pro, albeit at a slower rate.
• malfist 3y ago
  GaN doesn't actually change the capabilities, just the size required.
  • dtx1 3y ago
    Which is power density
• zamadatix 3y ago
  It's been quite nice to have a 150 W charger in such a small form factor. Particularly since these charges tend to come with multiple ports in case you want to go from "I'm just charging my MacBook" to "I want to plug a couple of things in overnight at the hotel but don't want to pack a bunch of chargers". Typically that's some combination of my watch, airpods, phone, and laptop. My current charger of choice is the Anker 747 150 W, 3 usb c (equal capabilities per port of 100 W) and 1 USB A (24 watts) but there have been a lot of other models released since then. Somewhere around ~240 W might be when I look at options again, right now my MacBook won't charge at full speed due to the 100 W limit on the 747.
• rektide 3y ago
  Absolutely. I think it's also super important that there is now a market of competing products too. Until recently, devices were sort of stuck using whatever the manufacturer provided. Almost no one shopped for power density. Now we have an interoperable standard & different companies can compete to be better. USB-PD has been pretty epic so far, IMO.