As of last Monday, all of my daily-driver tech is finally on native USB-C. I cannot express how convenient this is without writing an entire essay. It’s like all of those clunky universal AC adapters from the 90’s but better in every conceivable way.
I just plugged my laptop charger into my phone and my phone charger into my laptop. Both were just like “okey-dokey! 👍 Charging.”
The only negative is that it’s still a little annoying checking specs to be sure the PD chargers support the full 5, 9, 12, 15, and 20 volt options as well as finding reliable vendors of 100W, e-marked cables. Hopefully that improves in the future.
Still, it’s better than carrying around discrete chargers for everything. My travel bag feels at least 5 pounds lighter.
If anyone can recommend any high-wattage 12-24v DC power-delivery adapters that can output 20v, please do (i.e. cigaratte-lighter plug style for a car). The best I’ve found so far is a 45w one that will charge my laptop, but only if it’s asleep or off.
there’s also the de facto standards – the TS100 (first of the new generation of soldering irons) based charging off the Lenovo power brick not because it was a standard but because everyone already had one laying around
with USB-C we’re in one of those rare periods where ubiquitous and standards actually overlap …