Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “This Tiny Brick Can Power All Your Tech”.
So you guys probably caught a recent video that I made about switching from Apple laptops from Mac books of all sorts to this guy right here. This is the ThinkPad x1 carbon. Look at that. It’S thin! It’S light, I’m enjoying it! It’S all about the keyboard. In fact, look at that keyboard.
You see that Jack, that’s a nice keyboard. It’S lived up to all of my expectations and then beyond, but there’s one thing: that’s kind of been nagging me a little bit about it and that’s the charge, brick, not that there’s anything wrong with the charge. Brick, it’s a typical laptop brick. I’M happy that it’s type-c on this version. Of course it’s like that proprietary connector on the extreme version, that’s convenient because then you can charge other things up with this brick in your bag.
But inevitably, when you throw one of these into your laptop bag, you got a kind of rat’s nest situation going on and, of course, coming from Apple laptops, you’re used to a more condensed power, brick scenario: now I’m not the biggest fan of the Apple power bricks, Either because those ones tend to hang off the wall in a weird way, because all the weight is plugging directly into the wall and they’re also fairly large, maybe you’re in a coffee shop, and you need to plug in or something like that. You don’t really feel confident having the Apple power, brick hanging out of the wall either. Now this is a 65 watt adapter.
This is similar to what you would get on like a MacBook Air or something like that and various other Ultrabook thin and light laptops. This product right here showed up on Amazon, good reviews and it claims to be the most compact world’s most compact 60 watt power. Adapter and if you’re looking at the scale of that even sitting in the box, you’re like whoa, that thing is small: universal compatibility over USB type-c, USB PD, fast charge capable and 92 percent efficiency three-year warranty. This is not cheap, but I’m this kind of guy, where I’m always trying to get the ultimate kind of travel setup where you only have in your bag the things that you need and the optimal versions of those things that you need.
So if this can be the one power brick to rule them all to charge all the devices, that’s valuable to me and I’ll pay a premium. So if you want to see the price you can check the link in the description but be warned it a pricey power brick could charge a 12-inch MacBook in 1.8 hours now. This is also going to charge up certain devices faster than the stock charger. For example, if you purchased an iPhone and you have that tiny little power, brick with the low wattage, that thing is not actually utilizing the quick charge capability of your iPhone.
So in that case, you could pick up one of these, along with a type seats, a lightning connector for now until Apple finally switches, the phones over to type C, and you could get a much quicker charge with this guy as well. So it’s going to improve all of your charging scenarios from laptop to smartphone to tablet. Oh, my goodness, that’s the power brick! That is your laptop power brick. How do they fit a 60 watt capable charger into a package like that? Of course it’s PD capable USB type-c, connector and then fold up prongs over here. Now they do make another version of this non u.s. North America style connector with interchangeable international tips. It’S going to be a tiny bit larger to accommodate the universal tip configuration, but this one you get the benefit of the fold up. So that is just that’s.
Wonderful, honestly can charge a device like that or you go with this. Your choice. Okay, they give you a course, a type C cable, so everything you need to get up and running, so this connects over here fairly simple. The prongs flip out. That’S your connection in like that and we’re charging a jack right there, we’re charging them. Okay, 60. Watts of juice, road warrior types that are on and off of airplanes.
Those little incremental improvements make a difference over time if you’re constantly accessing this thing. Now, as I said, the point here is you skip bringing the smartphone adapter as well, in this case, you’re gon na use the same charge, brick type C, like most things. These days, you pop it on to the phone as well and you’re juicing up just as well, and your quick charging, let’s bring in Willie, do let’s see what he thinks about it.
Really, I don’t you had to introduce him anymore, that’s the type of reputation that he walks around with what you were at footlocker and they say: that’s Willie do right there, yeah you’re, taking photos. You take photos with people, it’s a wonderful time to be alive in the unbox therapy universe. If your name is Willie, do ya decent name, it’s not too bad one of my favorites ever in fact. So this is what we got. Energy is the company. They have somehow shrunk down the charging components necessary for a 60 watt adapter into a package like that. Let’S hear it man.
What do you have to say it’s expensive? You pay a premium. Yeah you’re, a man of the people break it down. For them, so it is very light. I use a lot of MacBook Chargers for my MacBook Pro and this thing’s, like maybe two and a half times smaller, but it is really expensive. Like you said 1:09, the price of a macbook charger is 69 bucks and that’s that 60 watts I like where you’re going here.
So what Will’s trying to say is there’s a lot of people who have the dual charger setup anyway, yeah at work at home yeah. Exactly and so, if you were gon na, go, spend 69 on another macbook charger or in this case ThinkPad charger. You could go this route pay a little more and you end up with the the most portable power brick on planet earth for 60 watts right, which is good, for you know at home, use at work, but mainly for traveling. I guess it’s really portable.
In that sense, I also find that MacBook Chargers. You know that they’re so heavy that sometimes they fall off, though yeah I know you know just like a little tug yeah and doesn’t seem like this. This would be a problem yeah, it’s not as heavy to begin with, so there’s not as much weight kind of pulling it down on the outlet exactly you know when you get those power bars or you get limited options and spaces to fit it in the big Guy is problematic. You can’t fit into certain if there’s other people have things plugged in the ones on the floor and port yep yeah. This is as narrow as the outlet itself. I think you’re a fan of this.
I am the price, but the price yeah. It’S $ 109 and I got I got to be with you on that. It’S expensive, I think a lot of that has to do with the fact they it’s not a high volume product right. I don’t think they’re gon na sell a million of these, but I’m saying just like you were, if you’re a dual power, adapter human being, which there’s a lot of them out there and 60 watts is good enough for you now I’m saying maybe go up, maybe Spend the extra 30 40 and and get something really cool like this.
Now I have a question: you have the MacBook Pro right there now that uses a higher wattage adapter. Yes, what happens if we hit it with the 60? Will they charge at all? It might charge slower they’ll, definitely charge. I would think, put a lot slower. Oh yeah charging. It would be a slow charge on a MacBook Pro cos, of course, and then, if you were trying to use the MacBook Pro and stressing it out at all, this may not be enough yeah, exactly yeah, who woulda thought charger tech. There are improvements to be had out there if you want to spend the money.
This is, according to this company, the smallest 60 watt power adapter in the world, if you’re a serious tech head and you’re trying to put together the ultimate kind of travel setup, it’s hard to beat something like this at 60 watts that said, you’re gon na have To pay the price, if you want that luxury life as usual, will he do? Thank you very much. This episode is brought to you by master. Ah, they just read: R opt the Mays audio 99 newer, headphones they’re, pretty sleek men got the walnut back here, really comfortable cushy ear cups got a steel construction, really clean, simple Comfort levels, probably a nine nine or ten a little bit of Marilyn Monroe whoa a Lotta bass, sound is really crisp hot. Damn it’s a nice man, it’s really nice.
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