USBefuddled: Untangling the Rat’s Nest of USB-C Standards and Cables

Re:USBefuddled: Untangling the Rat’s Nest of USB-C Standards... by frosted-flakes on Sunday December 05, 2021 @05:51PM (#29454164)

That's simply not true. I had three different laptops from 2010 to 2021: an Acer Inspiron (I think that's what it was called), a Dell Latitude, and a Surface Pro 3. All used different chargers. The Surface used Microsoft's proprietary magsafe connector, and the others used different-sized barrel jacks. I currently have a Dell XPS 13 which charges over USB-C.

Oddly, the Acer charger was the same as for an Acer 27" monitor I had, which came in handy once or twice.

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Re:USBefuddled: Untangling the Rat’s Nest of USB-C Standards... by justshowpost on Monday December 06, 2021 @04:16AM (#29457737)

Charger for monitor? Curiouser and curiouser.

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Re:USBefuddled: Untangling the Rat’s Nest of USB-C Standards... by frosted-flakes on Monday December 06, 2021 @06:57AM (#29458645)

You could call it a power supply, because the monitor obviously had no battery.

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