Author: Stefan Etienne
Every few weeks, I head up to Connecticut with five or six close friends or family members and some newfangled gaming laptop for a LAN party. Most of my gaming clan are like family to me, so we often share or loan charging peripherals. When everyone in the house needs to charge a controller, a Nintendo Switch, or some other piece of technology, spreading the energy around becomes a necessity.
Ideally, everyone in our gaming clan would only be sharing USB-C cables to charge our devices. But our LAN party reflect the industry: we’re not there yet.
There isn’t a high-end gaming laptop that doesn’t use its own proprietary charging plug. Sometimes that’s a design choice by the OEM or the physics of energy transfer getting in the way, thus...
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Every few weeks, I head up to Connecticut with five or six close friends or family members and some newfangled gaming laptop for a LAN party. Most of my gaming clan are like family to me, so we often share or loan charging peripherals. When everyone in the house needs to charge a controller, a Nintendo Switch, or some other piece of technology, spreading the energy around becomes a necessity.
Ideally, everyone in our gaming clan would only be sharing USB-C cables to charge our devices. But our LAN party reflect the industry: we’re not there yet.
There isn’t a high-end gaming laptop that doesn’t use its own proprietary charging plug. Sometimes that’s a design choice by the OEM or the physics of energy transfer getting in the way, thus...
Continue reading…
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