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[–] 9 points 8 months ago (6 children)

I just bought a more beefy laptop and it has a special charger cable because it's 170W :(

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    USB PD now supports up to 230W so thats on the manufacturerer being lazy, or the design having elements that are a few years old, since PD recently got that update.

    I'm guessing its a lenovo, 170W is one of their bigger bricks.

    But the next laptop you have might use the same charger as your ebike, so there's that.

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    You'll find that it'll work just fine on 100W USB C unless you have a dGPU in which case it really wants the bigboy power brick.

    If it makes you feel better, soon there will be adapters from USB PD 3.1 to 230W Lenovo Square sooner or later. And sometimes, older thinkpads with the square and circle connectors have had little kits made to give them USB C charging. Its only a matter of time.

    And for what its worth, if it wasn't gonna be C, Lenovo Square is a good one since I have tons of them knocking about, and eventually so does everyone.

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