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Re:New Dell XPS 13 developer edition now available by habitue on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @04:36PM (#18983292)
Additionally, it might even make sense to have the power plug only be USB-2.0, if it's cheap. No reason to have a thunderbolt 3.0 cable plugged into the wall all the time
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Re:New Dell XPS 13 developer edition now available by hiker512 on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @04:58PM (#18983520)
Unless you want to use your external display as power supply and usb hub at the same time with just one cable.

Some of us do work in actual offices and not in some coffee shops down the street. ;)

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Re:New Dell XPS 13 developer edition now available by habitue on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @10:20PM (#18985689)
> Some of us do work in actual offices

Whoah, what's up with that? Not sure why you're inferring this coffee shop story or why you're doing this smug posturing thing but it's pretty obnoxious.

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Re:New Dell XPS 13 developer edition now available by akoncius on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @06:20PM (#18984245)
but it’s not what parent author wrote. idea was to use usb-2 cheap cable as a cable to transfer electricity between charger and laptop.
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Re:New Dell XPS 13 developer edition now available by PascLeRasc on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @07:07PM (#18984621)
USB 2.0 specifies a maximum of 20AWG wire width for power transmission, which would limit you to 1.5A for charging.

http://sdphca.ucsd.edu/lab_equip_manuals/usb_20.pdf

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Re:New Dell XPS 13 developer edition now available by habitue on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @10:18PM (#18985680)
We're talking about usb-2.0 data over usb-c cable. It'll still have the power delivery of usb-c
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Re:New Dell XPS 13 developer edition now available by hiker512 on Thursday January 24, 2019 @11:07AM (#18989858)
And that wastes physical real estate that could be used for a more modern cable. And with more USBC / thunderbolt cables around, theyll also get cheaper.
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