“I’ve been at Computex Taipei all week, and I have yet to plug my MacBook into a wall outside of my hotel room,” Sam Byford writes for The Verge.
“The reason is USB-C, that controversial little reversible port that does everything; while there wasn’t much use for it a year ago when the MacBook launched, there’s now a whole growing ecosystem of adapters, monitors, and indestructible cables that are making it one of my favorite tech advances in a while,” Byford writes. “My weapon of choice this Computex is the MOS Go, a hipflask-sized 12000 mAh battery pack that gives my MacBook about three quarters of a charge, which is more than enough for me to make it through a day of heavy use.”
“Importantly, USB-C means the charging speed is dramatically better than you’d expect from a portable battery — it’s not all that much slower than plugging into the wall,” Byford writes. “Also it comes in Space Gray.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: We use – and recommend – the Anker PowerCore+ 20,100mAh USB-C Power Bank (6A Output, PowerIQ & VoltageBoost), US$59.99, for our Apple MacBooks, iPhones, and iPads:
not if its the only port you have … you need a ton of connectors that are bulky and expensive … it is a terrible idea
…or maybe a computer with only one port is NOT what you need. There’s different kind of laptops for this very reason.
Yeah, like when you use a program that MUST have an external multi-button mouse and a charger or SSD plugged in at the same time.
Then you bought the wrong computer, if you’re going to need that…
“There is different kind of laptops for this very reason.”
Seriously? Our educational system is so fucked.
For what else then?
obviously … did you read the article at all?
I wonder if they’ll eventually switch the iPhone to USB-C