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0 pointssharth11y ago0 comments

So... bring your own charger? Does your coffee shop normally provide you a laptop charger?

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Coffee shops and airports don't provide laptop chargers, but they do sometimes provide USB chargers, which are now the same thing!

mvid11y ago

Are the power requirements the same? My assumption would be that usb wall chargers wouldn't have the juice to keep your laptop battery at a steady state, let alone charge.

The provided iphone wall charger is 5 watts, the provided apple laptop charger is 60 watts.

scott_karana11y ago

I suspect airport chargers are more like 1 watt, but the problem is whether end-users will hook their laptops up to the insecure charger, not the efficiency or lack thereof :)

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scott_karana11y ago

Coffee shops and airports don't provide laptop chargers, but they do sometimes provide USB chargers, which are now the same thing!

mvid11y ago

Are the power requirements the same? My assumption would be that usb wall chargers wouldn't have the juice to keep your laptop battery at a steady state, let alone charge.

The provided iphone wall charger is 5 watts, the provided apple laptop charger is 60 watts.

scott_karana11y ago

I suspect airport chargers are more like 1 watt, but the problem is whether end-users will hook their laptops up to the insecure charger, not the efficiency or lack thereof :)

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