Up next in 10
Always looking for power outlets while on the road, or given up being able to charge your laptop while on a backpacking retreat? The Crave Plus PRO Power Bank features a staggering 20,000mAh of capacity and has three convenient ports, two USB-A QC 3.0 ports, and a USB-C PD 45W port. You can charge phones, tablets, headphones, smart watches, and, yes, a laptop, even an M1 MacBook Pro. Tech expert Dave Taylor demonstrates and talks about what makes this a solid option for portable power.
Check it out at: https://amzn.to/43vePhE
Visit Dave's Q&A Web site at: https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/
#crave #powerbank #20000mah #20000mahpowerbank #macbook #iphone #pixelfold #askdavetaylor
Show More Show Less View Video Transcript
0:00
This monster power bank can charge anything. Let's check it out
0:11
Dave Taylor here, and I'm checking out this. This beast is the Crave Plus Pro
0:16
20,000 milliamp hour power bank, and it's pretty hefty. You can see
0:21
that even compared to my phone, it's a pretty big guy. But 20,000 milliamps is like four times the
0:29
size of the battery of a typical smartphone, and it gives you enough power that it can actually
0:35
charge a laptop. We're going to test that in just a second, but let me tell you just a little about
0:40
it. First off, there's a button on the side that you push. It gives you a little display of how
0:45
charged the unit is, which is really important because you want to know when you need to charge
0:50
it because it's a slow charge because it's a really big battery. And then on the bottom
0:54
there are three ports. There's a dual quick charge QC 3.0 USB 3, and that's the rectangular
1:04
shape. And then there's one USB-C, and that's a power delivery or PD, and that can push out 45
1:11
watts. That's enough to charge a MacBook Air or a Windows PC. Certainly there's plenty of power
1:18
here to charge phones and tablets and watches and headphones and whatever other weird gizmos and
1:25
devices you have. This thing's ready to take on the challenge. Now, dimensions wise, it's seven
1:31
inches by 3.2 inches by seven tenths of an inch, and it's 16 ounces. It's fairly hefty, but you
1:39
can't avoid that. If you want to have that big battery capacity, you're going to have a big weight
1:43
to go with it. So it comes with a really nice USB-C to USB-C cable and a USB-C to USB-A or USB-3
1:54
whatever you want to call it, plug. So right off the bat, I can plug in off the USB-C, and let's
2:02
just see if it'll charge my Google Pixel Fold. I'm going to just plug this in, and the fold
2:10
I already feel the vibration. It says charging rapidly. It's getting plenty of charge. In fact
2:15
let me open it up so you can see the full glory of this phone. It's a pretty interesting device
2:21
So that one's charging, but I don't really want to use that USB-C charge port for a phone because we
2:28
got more devices to check out. So what I'm going to do instead is I got lots of other cables. So
2:34
this one is USB-A to USB-C. So I'm going to plug this one in, and this one will actually let me
2:42
get back to my Pixel and charge it. So that is charging, not rapidly, it's just charging because
2:50
this is a different speed port pushing out different wattage. And then this is USB-A to
2:56
lightning connector. Finally, rumor has it that the iPhone 15 will be USB-C, but the iPhone 14 Pro
3:05
which is what I have here, is now charging. And so they're both charging simultaneously off of
3:11
this thing, and this is 20,000 milliamp hours. So that is a ton of battery capacity. But, hmm
3:19
let's try charging my laptop too. Now, I will warn you, with laptop charging
3:25
it's a different creature because laptops, at least the most modern ones, want a lot of power
3:32
They are designed to take a lot of wattage, 60, 80, 100, more than 100 watts. And the more power
3:41
you give it, the faster it charges at the cost of more heat. But can this work? This is a MacBook
3:47
Pro, M1 MacBook Pro. Can it work with 45 watts? Well, you know, what it's going to do is it's
3:53
going to say that it's insufficient to be charging. So I'm going to plug this in. So now
3:59
we should have everything working at the same time. So my computer reports that it's charging
4:06
and then this is still charging, and this is still charging. All of these off of this. There
4:10
are no wires going into the wall here. And then on this, let's see, there is a
4:19
program we can get to. Let me just get to it real quick. And I'll show you, it actually shows you
4:27
how much power it's getting in for a charge. And that's really helpful. It's called System Report
4:34
And I'm going to go down to Power and let's see, we're going to go into AC Power and somewhere
4:43
down here. Here we go. So now I can give you, here's the screenshot so you can see what I'm
4:49
seeing. And you can see it's connected and it's getting 45 watts and yes, it's charging. So I'll
4:57
tell you, having a lot of experience with these sort of devices, the way to actually have it
5:02
charge more effectively is to turn your laptop off. So just leave it powered down either in
5:08
sleep mode or even better, shut it down, plug it in and just let this thing work with it. And in
5:14
fact, it's going to probably get the fastest charge if I just unplug the phones and just
5:20
let it focus on charging my laptop. And so the way these work is it'll accept lower wattage. You can
5:26
charge this with like a 30 watt charger if you're in a pinch. It's going to be really slow compared
5:32
to a regular charger, but that's okay because especially when you turn it off, it's just going
5:37
to let it slowly trickle into the device and slowly charge it. And 45 watts, it's not pushing
5:43
out 80 watts or 100 watts. Obviously that would be a bigger, more complex power bank because it would
5:49
actually then have to manage heat differently. This one, there's no sense that it's
5:55
warming up or anything. It's just sitting here nice and cool, sitting on my laptop, charging my laptop
6:02
And I can easily plug back in these other two charging wires and just let it charge up basically
6:08
my entire digital world all at once. And if that's not a great testimonial for this being a great
6:16
road warrior or backpacking device, it is heavy, but it's got a lot of juice in it. And that's
6:22
everything. There's not much else I can really tell you about it. It's a really slick device. It has a
6:26
really nice build quality and it's heavy. It's worth it. And I think that this is a nice flexible
6:33
solution. I like that it includes a USB-C to USB-C and a USB-C to USB-A adapter. Be aware there is no
6:43
way to store it. There's no little like groove down the side to tuck a wire in. It doesn't come with a
6:50
travel case or anything. So you're on your own for your wires, although obviously it includes some
6:55
So you have to figure out how to travel with all of this, but it's a terrific device in that regard
7:00
And it still is just absolutely a joy to have something with this much battery capacity
7:07
Very, very helpful. And I'm starting to feel a tiny bit of warmth, but I'm really pulling as much
7:13
wattage out of this right now as I possibly can. Charging all three of these devices. That's all I
7:19
got. Pretty cool. Definitely one to check out. Now, price. Let's talk about that price because it is a
7:26
little spendy, but that's because it's a lot of battery and that's kind of how these price out
7:31
So this, I will remind you, is the Crave Plus Pro 20,000 milliamp hour power bank. And it's $129.99
7:40
currently discounted down to $99.99 at Amazon.com. And you might think a hundred bucks for a power
7:47
bank. That's pretty spendy. But the reality is if you need the power and you need the capacity and
7:54
you need to be able to maybe charge your phone and three other phones simultaneously or, you know
8:00
in different times of the day, or you want to just be friends with people at a big trade show
8:05
this is a just joy to have. It's a really great device and it's definitely one worth checking out
8:12
That's all I got. Hope to catch you in my next video
#Computer Hardware
#Laptops & Notebooks
#Consumer Electronics
#Gadgets & Portable Electronics