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Re:USBefuddled: Untangling the Rat’s Nest of USB-C Standards... by johnwalkr on Sunday December 05, 2021 @06:57AM (#29448616)
I switched to usb-c as much as I could. I recently travelled for a month with all my battery-powered work and personal stuff (2 MacBooks (one Intel and one M1), 2 iPhones, Nintendo Switch, game controller, mouse (that one is micro usb), headphones and shaver). I brought only the following as a trial: 1 Anker 45W GaN charger[1], 1 30cm usb-c lightning cable, 1 1m usb-c cable, 1 usb-A to C adapter, 1 usb-C to A adapter which went unused, and 1 usb-c to micro adapter.

It went better than I expected. Sometimes I used the A-C adapter to trickle charge stuff in the hotel when I was out, taking my own charger with me for the day, and other than that just rotating what I was charging. The 45W charger is not much bigger than an OG iPhone charger and had no problem with my 16” MacBook. The difference in charging time to the Apple 87W charger wasn’t noticed.

One bonus I did not anticipate. You know how some cheap devices have usb-c charging that only seems to work with a USB-A to C cable? The adapters I mentioned can work around that.

One thing want to do but not tried yet is convert a few micro-usb things to usb-c. You can get convenient little breakout boards for it on Aliexpress.

[1] https://us.anker.com/products/a2664111

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Re:USBefuddled: Untangling the Rat’s Nest of USB-C Standards... by makeitdouble on Sunday December 05, 2021 @08:38AM (#29449172)
I have a similar packaging when traveling, except with two chargers instead of one (macbook’s fast charger and one for the rest of the divices). For comparison, before USB-C I needed the Macbook magsafe charger, two USB-A to lightning cables and a 4 or 5 USB-A to micro USB cables for the appliances. When the Switch arrived it shared the USB-C charger of the 16” macbook when traveling.

Basically I feel the type of cables changed but I am not traveling much lighter not has it become that easier on managing stuff. I still think USB-C is fine, better than micro USB on so many respects, I just don’t feel the revolutionary aspect yet.

Perhaps we’ll be there in 5 years? If we din’t end up with new fragmentation on the wireless charging part.

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