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Apple's New 35W Chargers With Dual USB-C Ports Now Available to Order
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It's obvious for us consumers, but for Apple, having customers buy more stuff is the obvious choice. Why let people just buy one thing when you can have them buy two things?
Apple is late to the game. Anker is well-established in this market. I have two 65W 2-port USB-C plugs for a year. Anker now offers a 100W 3-port (two USB-C, one USB-A). They're very solid units. Plus there are a ton of generic brands on AMZ. Also available in white!
Yes, both of them are 100–240V 50–60Hz (most chargers are). For the "compact" one you could use a UK travel adapter (ideally a BS 8546 one). The regular one, you can swap out the plug with one from the World Travel Adapter Kit, or buy the Power Adapter Extension Cable in the UK.
Well obviously that's not the obvious reason Apple intended it for. Since it's being an option with the new Air my guess is it's for charging the MacBook and having power to top off an iPhone or Apple Watch. The thing is everyone has a different use case for something. If your use case is charging your iPhone and Series 7 Apple Watch then this isn't the product for you. People act like they're upset if a product doesn't meet their use case. There's a reason that different products exist. It's like complaining that size 9 shoes don't fit you. Buy the size that fits?
Also I keep seeing so many refrences to Apple Watch fast charging in this post. Only the newest Series 7 has fast charging. Every other Apple Watch is less than 5 watts. I know some out there have the new Apple Watch but most don't.
I'm fully aware of what the MagSafe Duo is but I'm not sure where you're getting your information from because it's completely wrong. I understand brand loyalty but nothing in the circuitry of Apple chargers is unique in a way to make them charge Apple products differently. They are quality chargers that you can't go wrong with but there's no brand requirement.
Also 20 watts doesn't make the MagSafe Duo charge at full speed. No 20 watt adapter to include the Apple branded one will charge the MagSafe Duo at full speed. Any proper 20 watt USB-C adapter that supports 9V/2.22A will work though. It needs at least a 27 watt adapter to charge at full speed.
There is so much confusion about chargers out there. If it's not in the specs or somewhere on the Apple website it might not be correct.
I bought an apple silicon case for my iPhone. Couldn’t find a better case. (For me, imo)
I think that has to be it.
Maybe it's a way to get rid of old 67W chargers before announcing a new dual-port 97W USB-C charger for the M2 MacBooks Pro?
35W charger for a laptop that can do up to 67W is just such a weird charger to include.
Sure, I could see you'd maybe be happy with a dual-port USB-C charger with 35W if you only own iPhones, iPads and maybe AirPods and a Watch.
But why get this with your MacBook Air if it does 67W fast-charging?
Obviously the distribution isn't handled as unfairly. But you're technically still just getting 5W more than the 30W the Air needs.
Which begs the question, wouldn't you get faster charging and more total power output from the charger to your devices by simply getting the 67W fast charger and plugging in your Apple device(s) into the M2 Airs USB-C ports?
I get that the M2 Air then has to be powered on and there's no charging multiple devices without the Air.
But still, it seems like this 35W dual-port charger is sort of holding your Air back quite a bit?
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I have the Apple 96 watt charger for my 14" MBPro. One could plug three USB-C charging cables into the laptop. Only need to carry the one charging brick. Recently, I have only purchased the 30 watt bricks from Apple partly because the international adapter kit allowed it to be used anywhere.
Only Apple users can lose their collective minds over Apple releasing a charging brick (and before that, their cleaning cloth). I guess it’s a somewhat happy (if occasionally frustrating) problem, given that the opposite of love is not hatred but indifference.
It depends what it does but I would if it means I don't have to take 2 separate chargers to charge 2 devices.
Sure it's bigger than one but it's smaller than 2.
Huh? This screenshot is right from Apple’s website. I put the link below for the Apple Store webpage on the MagSafe Duo Charger. You’re posting completely incorrect information and this just causes confusion.
I understand everyone isn’t tech savvy but the information is out there. It took me five minutes to go on the Apple’s website and pull this up. If you have questions there’s quite a few knowledgeable people on these forms that could answer your questions.
Well the standard ( by virtue if beeing somewhat larger than the compact) might not get as hot when under full load, this might mitigate heat/fire issues for people living in warner than usual climates
That’s a interesting reason but it sounds good. I wonder if the compact charger would have issues in extremely hot climates. I bought the regular one just because I can put the cord on it. I guess I could use an extension cord with a compact one but it just doesn’t seem the same.
In the end, no thank you. I could get an Anker 735 65W USB-C charger for $10 more.
I got my 35W Dual USB-C one in yesterday but haven't taken it out of the box or tested it because it's going to be for the M2 Air whenever Apple decides to make it go up for sale. It's not the compact version because I wanted the ability to add the cord.