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I'm baffled they didn't do higher wattage. I know MBA is not exactly high-powered, but why not do a dual charger that could fast charge both an iPhone and the mac?

Also, and I almost can't believe I'm asking for this, but why do I have to get a charger bundled? I have 2 x 100w with triple USB-C and 1 USB-A. I don't need new chargers for the foreseeable future.
Anker makes a higher wattage dual USB-C charger. I want to say it goes up to 80w or something, and it uses the GaN tech
 
35w is not enough, my iPad Pro 12.9" 2021 pulls 30/35w just by itself so even just charging some low powered airpods on the second port I'll be sacrificing some charging speed. What a crap product at a massively over inflated price. If each port supplied 30w each then fine, but 17.5w per port is taking the piss for what they are charging for it.

Anker makes a higher wattage dual USB-C charger. I want to say it goes up to 80w or something, and it uses the GaN tech
Had a quick look and I can by the Anker 60W 2-Port USB C Charger on Amazon for £49.99, still pretty compact, provides far more power and much cheaper while still being a well know brand.
 
An iPhone (around 10Whr) and MacBook air (50 Whr) should charge nicely on this in a couple of hours.

I assume it's smart enough to divert full power to the other port when the demand on one drops.
 
No “compact” version of the adapter for the UK market. Sad times for the brits.
Apple would have to manufacture a UK version and they probably figured that a lot would stay in the warehouse because a lot of Brits and other Europeans tend to be more price sensitive than Americans. With the standard dual USB-C port adapter, they can be more flexible with distribution based on demand geographically thanks to the interchangeable plug design. There are a lot of quality dual-port USB-C adapter alternatives already on the market.
 
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This is by far the dumbest least sophisticated Apple product yet. I have a handful of 66W and 100W GaN chargers at home. The 66W are the same size as this apple thing, have 2 USB-C and 1 USB-A ports and can easily charge a MBA, iPad Pro AND Apple Watch at the same time at full speed. Oh. It costs less too and comes with world wide plugs.
 
Just using a cheap ruler in my office...

20W USB-C adapter (US ver.): approx. 58mm long (incl. prongs), 42mm wide, 28mm thick
35W dual (regular): approx. 55mm square (prongs folded), 28mm thick
35W dual (compact): approx. 50mm square, 27mm thick (prongs stick out ~2mm when folded so you can grab them)
Thanks. The "compact" one seems kind of pointless since it's not much smaller.
 
Pretty sure it can’t. The HomePod mini is known to not work with Apple’s older 18-watt USB-C charger. It requires at least 20 watts.
Late 2020 the HomePods mini received a firmware update allowing them to work with 18-watt chargers. So, perhaps one of these new Apple chargers will be able to drive two HomePods mini.
 
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35w is not enough, my iPad Pro 12.9" 2021 pulls 30/35w just by itself so even just charging some low powered airpods on the second port I'll be sacrificing some charging speed. What a crap product at a massively over inflated price. If each port supplied 30w each then fine, but 17.5w per port is taking the piss for what they are charging for it.


Had a quick look and I can by the Anker 60W 2-Port USB C Charger on Amazon for £49.99, still pretty compact, provides far more power and much cheaper while still being a well know brand.
The product isn't for you. No doubt Apple did it's market research and decided on who needs a charge such as this and at what price point.
 
Agreed, it’s a perplexing product, and having these two versions of it is even more weird. I know it’s not the first time they’ve done it, but still.

I have a RAVPower 90W GaN dual USB-C PD charger that doesn’t look to be much bigger than this, and it’s fantastic.
it's 2 versions because there is the travel version with their "standard" design and the new design with honestly looks better but only works in places like China and the US and wherever else the 2 parallel prong outlet design is a thing.
 
35w is not enough, my iPad Pro 12.9" 2021 pulls 30/35w just by itself so even just charging some low powered airpods on the second port I'll be sacrificing some charging speed. What a crap product at a massively over inflated price. If each port supplied 30w each then fine, but 17.5w per port is taking the piss for what they are charging for it.


Had a quick look and I can by the Anker 60W 2-Port USB C Charger on Amazon for £49.99, still pretty compact, provides far more power and much cheaper while still being a well know brand.

I also thought they would do 35W x 2. But no.
 
Would love if power point plugs were standardised across the world. Sick of missing out on the compact form factors of chargers due to the differences in pins.
 
Apple should have offered GaaN power bricks ages ago, but there are so many better options these days. It does take some research to find bricks that support intelligently splitting the output across the ports and many do not realize that most will split the output as soon as a cable is plugged in whether a device is attached to it or not.
 
Now make a dual port 100W adapter, Apple! Slowly charging 2 MBP’s is better than full charging each, serially
 
Would love if power point plugs were standardised across the world. Sick of missing out on the compact form factors of chargers due to the differences in pins.

In an ideal world that would be great, along with the same voltages/frequencies and all driving on the same side of the road. I don't care which side, just pick one. I've worked in a few car factories were we had to keep 2 sets of tools for making either left or right hand drive. Apart from the monumental cost of the tooling, it takes several hours to convert the machines when they could otherwise be running. Same goes for the moulds that make chargers.

Attempting to standardise all electronic devices to USB-C is a step in the right direction.
 
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If one of the two devices gets charged to the maximum, does it reduce its absorption to let the other one charge faster, or does it need to get unplugged?
 
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Here’s the million dollar question (or the $59 + tax question?)

M2 MBA - dead
iPhone 13 PM - dead

You plug them both in.

Obviously iPhone will be fine, and charge at 17.5W.

But what can you do with MBA? Once it turns on, if you start doing anything a bit intensive (photo editing, video editing, gaming), does it:

1. Die almost immediately

2. Stay at 1% but never die

Or

3. Slowly charge?
 
If one of the two devices gets charged to the maximum, does it reduce its absorption to let the other one charge faster, or does it need to get unplugged?
I’m going to assume (and that may be a mistake 😂) that it will trickle while the other port gets the 27.5W split maximum?

Would be cool if it could delivered 33-34W to one while the other trickles at 1-2W
 
Since it is a choice of one or the other, I might just go with the faster charger and just find another outlet(s) to charge other things using a faster charger in the hotel or at home. I don't want the dual charger to be slow.
 
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