MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch

Re:MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch by philliphaydon on Monday October 18, 2021 @11:01PM (#28914407)

I'm dissappointed in USB in general, we have standards but it seems few follow standards. For example, I recently bought my wife an Asus ROG Falchion keyboard. Really tiny one with Zhuyin input.

So the connection is USB-C, but if you connect ANY USB-C cable to the keyboard, it wont charge. Even the USB-C <> USB-C cable that comes with iPad Pro doesn't charge it. So far of the ~20 cables I own that I've tried, the only cable that will charge it is the Asus provided cable...

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Re:MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch by can16358p on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @04:11AM (#28915926)

Same with my Momentum 3 headset. It charges over any USB-C cable "that can also carry data". If the cable is power-only (and surprizingly, many are power-only, including Apple's cables that come with iPad/MacBook) it won't charge even though I just need to charge my headset and (obviously) no data transfer.

It's stupid, but it is unfortunatelly the way it is.

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Re:MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch by philliphaydon on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @05:00AM (#28916173)

Oh! I wonder if it will work with my Wii cable then! I haven’t tried that! It never occured to me that most of my cables are power only.

Thanks!

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Re:MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch by can16358p on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @06:44AM (#28916714)

Yup, check if it can also carry data. If it can, it's probably that. Cheers!

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