That “Fast Charge 3.0 compatible” brick you bought on the cheap from Amazon works with some of your stuff, but not others. Your laptop’s USB-C charger will charge your phone, but not the other way around. Just keep one or two by my bed, and a few by my desk, and I’ll never have to carry a cable again.Įxcept for the fact that USB-C is still a maddeningly confusing standard. On the surface, it would seem to be perfect - one cable to charge them all. With more and more tech companies embracing the new port standard as time goes on, USB-C is both a blessing and a curse when it comes to solving my charging conundrum. With prices like these, it’s more or less financially irresponsible to actually realize my double charger dream.Įnter USB-C. A spare 85W MagSafe 2 charger for my MacBook Pro costs $85 from Apple (and yes, I tend to stay within the more expensive name brand when it comes to the thing that courses dangerous amounts of electricity through my laptop.) A 65W Surface charger? $79.99. The problem is, laptop chargers are expensive. And it’s ultimately better for my sanity of not constantly having to check whether or not I actually remembered my charger on any given day. It’s better for the overall life of the charger, since you’re not stressing the cable as much.
But not having to do the small chore of unplugging my charger from by my bed, wrapping it up, and plugging it in by my desk at work, day in and day out, is just a nice thing to be able to do. It is wholly unnecessary in the great scheme of things, given that by their very nature each charger functions equally well. One of the minor but underappreciated luxuries of this world is having two laptop chargers.
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