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I don't plan to go back to MagSafe. I have multiport USB-C chargers all round my house and don't really want to buy lots of cables or proprietary chargers to add to the mix. I'm sticking with USB-C even if it's slower. SD cards I don't use. And HDMI I rarely use so dongles are fine, but it's nice to have I guess!

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In a similar boat re: chargers. It's fantastic being able to grab any ol' USB-C charger (of sufficient power) and charge just about any modern laptop short of maybe the beefier gaming laptops / portable workstations (I haven't tried charging my Dell G5 via USB-C, for example, so maybe it'd work, but I ain't betting on it).

If I chose to buy the 14" model which comes with a 96W USB-C power adapter, does anyone who has experience of Apple products know if I could still use my existing 65W usb charger to power or charge the MacBook?

My Dell XPS 15 does allow me to charge it with a 65W USB-C charger which is nice when I don't want to lug around the beefy 130W power adapter but I do have to be careful not to stress the CPU too much or it will start draining the battery. I wonder whether MacBooks have a similar "graceful fallback".

The new Macbook Pros support charging through the USB-C ports or the MagSafe port.

You should be fine using the USB-C ports with your adapter.

It's as of yet unclear how well the MagSafe cable would work with your adapter.

My 2016 MacBook Pro came with an 87W charger and I always run it off a monitor that supplies 60W over thunderbolt and it never drains. I used to mostly run it off a 45W charger and would only see it slowly drain if I was really pushing it with compiles.

Thanks, that's just what I wanted to know.

I don't have any USB-C but I've got some MagSafe. Unfortunately this is MagSafe3 so I assume that means buying new chargers. I like the SD and HDMI, but IMHO they are still missing "standard" USB ports which are used by most flash storage devices. It's not even about the cost of buying new devices for me, it's about someone handing me an SD or a thumb drive with some data on it and being able to just use it. Apple is very very poor when it comes to that.

Interestingly Apple now sell Magsafe3 -> USB-C Cables.

They said you can still charge it via USB-C as well as the magsafe. Your choice.

The other end of the new MagSafe cable is a USB-C plug, so that should be fine.

Yeah I don't even use any USB-C charger to power my MBP. My USB-C monitor delivers 90W to the MBP.

Agree on the chargers. SD card is great if you do anything wit Raspberry Pi's and photos.

Or buy an adapter like this https://www.amazon.ca/BASEQI-aluminum-microSD-Adapter-MacBoo... and have yourself some extra storage expansion. Might be slow, but good for things you access rarely.

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