Two charging question for owners:
1. can you still charge over usb-c or are you forced to use MagSafe?
2. Is the other side of the magsafe cable usb-c or is it glued to the brick?
I rather like not having extra cables/charging blocks.
1. can you still charge over usb-c or are you forced to use MagSafe?
2. Is the other side of the magsafe cable usb-c or is it glued to the brick?
I rather like not having extra cables/charging blocks.
2. The other side of the cable is USB-C.
There’s no real problem making a charger than can deliver more than the spec allows, but you wouldn’t be able to use it with a C-C cable. This isn’t one.
Guessing they can only do 3.0 on the data ports for now and the MagSafe connector is just USB PD 3.1 implementation without any possibility for data.
The MagSafe 3 cable goes from 140W USB-C to MagSafe, but the USB-C charger is 100% standards-compliant USB-C EPR.
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140W charging on the 16" had me worried that Apple was using a proprietary/non-conforming extension to USB-C, just like Nintendo did for the Switch. The reports of bricked Switches from standard USB-C chargers was an unfortunate demonstration of why this is a bad idea, and why it's important that Apple is using a standard (even if it's very new) method of increasing power delivery.
The 16-inch MacBook Pro certainly doesn't need 140 W to run. The Intel i9 MacBook Pro comes with a "measly" 96 W charger and it tops up just fine. The 140 W is there for fast charging and if they had to stick to 100 W, they could've made a professional machine just fine. It's not like the most common complaint about the MacBooks between 2016 and 2021 was "it charges up too slow".
1. You can charge over usb-c.
2. Yes, the magsafe cable as usb-c at the other end.
On the website for the notebook the "In the box" section shows a separate MagSafe -> USB-C cable.
2. it is a usb-c plug