The European Union has officially imposed a new rule for selling laptops with a power rating of 100 W or less, requiring them to use a USB-C port for charging. This rule takes effect today, April 28, Tuesday, as the European Commission has been exploring ways to reduce electronic waste and has been ...
Yeahhhh but the standard is 240w. I swear they are doing this on purpose. A battery law that doesnt apply to 80% of new phones, a charger law that doesnt apply to gaming laptops.
80% of phones charge over 100 watt now?
And here I felt special with my 120w phone charger…
As Lemmyman posted above:
So when you write:
What is the conspiracy you are implying?
Oh okay that makes sense. The conspiracy im implying is that its already a proven thing in the us that politicians will pass a very weak bill that doesnt really change anything so they can use the excuse of RTR protections already existing. Actually a lot of places do this with diversity and environmental laws as well. I just got really annoyed with the battery one cause they exclude so many phones.
Looking at Anker website, their most expensivest charging block is 250W with a 140W max per port.
140W blocks are not so common. Anything beyond that is super rare if even exists.
Your typical laptop would utilize 45-85W with the most common 65W. Some gaming laptops would need 240W or more. 240W is a technical limit for USB-C PD right now. As an example, a gaming laptop - Legion Pro 7 16 is rated 400W and a laptop for creators - ThinkPad P14s is rated 100W.
In the end, the most common power block is 65W that will be sufficient with majority of devices. The law is making sense in a way that they will remove all those barrel jacks and proprietary connectors from most common devices leaving them for specific cases.
Even 120W charging is anything but common in laptops that are not for gaming or mobile workstations. Although I do wish they sat it at least that high
I’m not sure a USB C cable exists that could charge my gaming laptop, even if my laptop supported it.