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87w GaN charger

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These mini chargers are rocking my world. Anybody know of a small 87w one for a 15" MBP?
 
RumorConsumer said:
These mini chargers are rocking my world. Anybody know of a small 87w one for a 15" MBP?
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May not be necessary... I am running my 3.1GHz 2017 15 inch MBP with no issues with Anker GaN 60W power supply and it is working perfectly fine. I can imagine extreme use where it may not, but that has to be very rare - especially while on travel.
My system normally draws between 13 and 26 W.
 
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+1 here for the 61w the I never used the OEM :apple: plug

Honza1 said:
May not be necessary... I am running my 3.1GHz 2017 15 inch MBP with no issues with Anker GaN 60W power supply and it is working perfectly fine. I can imagine extreme use where it may not, but that has to be very rare - especially while on travel.
My system normally draws between 13 and 26 W.
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Honza1 said:
May not be necessary... I am running my 3.1GHz 2017 15 inch MBP with no issues with Anker GaN 60W power supply and it is working perfectly fine. I can imagine extreme use where it may not, but that has to be very rare - especially while on travel.
My system normally draws between 13 and 26 W.
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How do you measure your draw?
 
I use the Anker 60W as well for a 2018 15” with the 555x.

When I’m fully loading it in my own use cases: heavy macos MS apps (teams, outlook, large excel), Win 10 VM with PowerBI, and idle WoW in the background.... I get about 55W max draw.

I’ve been considering an upgrade to the Vega 20 model and I suspect the 60W won’t handle that, but maybe?
 
TriApple said:
I use the Anker 60W as well for a 2018 15” with the 555x.

When I’m fully loading it in my own use cases: heavy macos MS apps (teams, outlook, large excel), Win 10 VM with PowerBI, and idle WoW in the background.... I get about 55W max draw.

I’ve been considering an upgrade to the Vega 20 model and I suspect the 60W won’t handle that, but maybe?
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How do you measure your draw?
 
TriApple said:
I use the Anker 60W as well for a 2018 15” with the 555x.

When I’m fully loading it in my own use cases: heavy macos MS apps (teams, outlook, large excel), Win 10 VM with PowerBI, and idle WoW in the background.... I get about 55W max draw.

I’ve been considering an upgrade to the Vega 20 model and I suspect the 60W won’t handle that, but maybe?
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the 60W charger has been working fine for my 2018 i9 + 32GB ram + Vega 20.
I do relatively heavy workloads (VMs, software builds, etc) all the time and I have rarely seen the battery indicator drop to 99%.

However if your battery is already low it might be really slow to charge while you do work.
 
pallymore said:
the 60W charger has been working fine for my 2018 i9 + 32GB ram + Vega 20.
I do relatively heavy workloads (VMs, software builds, etc) all the time and I have rarely seen the battery indicator drop to 99%.

However if your battery is already low it might be really slow to charge while you do work.
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So I ended up upgrading. Completely agree. It is HARD for me to get it above 60W. Really cool!
 
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