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I guess you'll have to deep in the apple cult to be amazed by other phone chargers. Power Delivery have been around for over 10 years, follow standards and have

I guess you'll have to deep in the apple cult to be amazed by other phone chargers. Power Delivery have been around for over 10 years, follow standards and have enough power and it charges.

wslh 3y ago
Beyond the Apple cult, could you charge your Lenovo, Dell, etc notebooks with a standard mobile phone charger? Last time I tried with a 2022 Lenovo via USB-C it didn't work.
- Kon-Peki 3y ago
  A 3 amp USB charger is going to be somewhere in the range of 15 watts, right? That's awfully powerful for a phone charger, is it not? I think my kids' Chromebook chargers have that kind of output. In our household, we use all the USB-C stuff interchangeably. My wife has a Thinkpad X1 Carbon and another slightly older Thinkpad. Both seem to charge fine with whatever we throw at them. But truth be told, my wife uses an extra Apple 65W charger we bought when on the go. They are just plain better built, and disconnect into 3 pieces making them way easier to pack up in a bag.
  - wslh 3y ago
    Are you sure about the Thinkpad X1 Carbon? [1] [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/xht880/most_usbc_chargers_not_working/ https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/xht880/most_usbc_...
    - Kon-Peki 3y ago
      She’s got a gen 7. It definitely works. We don’t even have the Lenovo charger anymore. It broke. To be clear, you aren’t going to be able to use a phone/tablet charger when you’ve got the lid open and are actively using the computer. But with the lid closed and the laptop asleep, it absolutely will trickle charge to 100% overnight. Again, 7th gen X1 Carbon and another even older Thinkpad. No idea about the newer stuff.
  - photonerd 3y ago
    > That's awfully powerful for a phone charger, is it not? 15W? No. A charger needs to be 18W to even be basic fast charging. Many are 20W
- pohuing 3y ago
  My Lenovo Yoga slim from 2023 charges fine with my pixel 4a charger. Though it's barely enough power to break even while watching YouTube on Firefox. Though the Samsung charger from a 2023 Samsung A series phone can't charge it.

I guess you'll have to deep in the apple cult to be amazed by other phone chargers. Power Delivery have been around for over 10 years, follow standards and have enough power and it charges.

wslh 3y ago

Beyond the Apple cult, could you charge your Lenovo, Dell, etc notebooks with a standard mobile phone charger? Last time I tried with a 2022 Lenovo via USB-C it didn't work.

Kon-Peki 3y ago
A 3 amp USB charger is going to be somewhere in the range of 15 watts, right? That's awfully powerful for a phone charger, is it not? I think my kids' Chromebook chargers have that kind of output. In our household, we use all the USB-C stuff interchangeably. My wife has a Thinkpad X1 Carbon and another slightly older Thinkpad. Both seem to charge fine with whatever we throw at them. But truth be told, my wife uses an extra Apple 65W charger we bought when on the go. They are just plain better built, and disconnect into 3 pieces making them way easier to pack up in a bag.
- wslh 3y ago
  Are you sure about the Thinkpad X1 Carbon? [1] [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/xht880/most_usbc_chargers_not_working/ https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/xht880/most_usbc_...
  - Kon-Peki 3y ago
    She’s got a gen 7. It definitely works. We don’t even have the Lenovo charger anymore. It broke. To be clear, you aren’t going to be able to use a phone/tablet charger when you’ve got the lid open and are actively using the computer. But with the lid closed and the laptop asleep, it absolutely will trickle charge to 100% overnight. Again, 7th gen X1 Carbon and another even older Thinkpad. No idea about the newer stuff.
- photonerd 3y ago
  > That's awfully powerful for a phone charger, is it not? 15W? No. A charger needs to be 18W to even be basic fast charging. Many are 20W
pohuing 3y ago
My Lenovo Yoga slim from 2023 charges fine with my pixel 4a charger. Though it's barely enough power to break even while watching YouTube on Firefox. Though the Samsung charger from a 2023 Samsung A series phone can't charge it.