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One charger to rule them all? Let's find out
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Dave Taylor here and I'm looking at this. This is the Inateck 45 watt USB-C wall charger
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It's pretty nice. As you can see it's a modest size and the wall prongs definitely fold in or out
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Input wise you can plug it into anything that's from 100 to 240 volts at 50 or 60 hertz
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A lot of flexibility there with different countries. But where this really shines is obviously on the ports and what you can plug in
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The top one is a 30 watt USB-C port and then the lower ones are both 15 watt USB 3.0 ports
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I thought you can charge multiple things simultaneously. So I plugged it into my convenient power cord and then I have a Samsung J7
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This is one of the sort of entry-level Samsung Galaxy phones. And I'm using a micro USB to USB 3.0
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Some people you'll see this is a type A. It's the same thing. It's the square cable that everyone's used to
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I'm plugging it in and so now the phone's charging. But here's what's really interesting is that the Inateck includes a USB-C to USB-C cable
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And it's pretty decent actually. It's reasonably long as you can see
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And I've plugged it into my MacBook Pro. And then the other end I'm going to plug into the USB-C port
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So now simultaneously I'm charging my laptop and my smartphone. That's pretty nice
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And here's the thing is that Apple says, oh, well our minimum wattage charger is 61 watts
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And really anything below that's not going to really actually be charging your device
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Well, you know what? This does charge the device. Not only that but as you can see in this hardware update and status system from the actual macOS itself
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that it actually lists it as a charging device even though it confirms that it's only running at 30 watts
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Which leads to the question, hmm, all right, well how fast is it charge
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So when I had both of these devices plugged in then the phone charged fairly slowly
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It was only a 22 percent charge an hour later. So that's not going to break any land records
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But the MacBook did pretty well. 38 percent charge in an hour
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Now again, it's a 30 watt charger. So technically according to Apple it shouldn't be charging at all
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So I'll take that almost 40 percent charge in an hour. And it certainly means that I can leave all this stuff overnight if I'm at a hotel or something
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And by the time I wake up in the morning everything will be fully charged. Very nice
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Now, the other thing that Inateck does as do all these chargers now
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I mean they all have the same basic circuitry inside as far as I can tell. So it supports protection against overheating, overcurrent, overvoltage and overcharging
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And it doesn't use Qualcomm's quick charge system but it does use what's known as PD 2.0
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And PD is power delivery. So there's yet another standard out there
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And it uses that to try to figure out how much wattage and voltage and, you know, how much power can these devices you've plugged in take
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And then it wants to feed the maximum it can. Now, obviously Samsung, this device, probably could have handled a little bit more wattage than what this charger gave it
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Because 22% in an hour is not very impressive. But on the other hand, the fact that I can use all of these at the same time and as an emergency backup charger
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It can even charge my MacBook Pro. That makes it a real winner in my book
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And in terms of travel, you know, even if you actually just bring your own cables and you don't use the cable that's included with it
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You fold up the prongs and that's a pretty easy thing to put in your briefcase or backpack
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And now you not only have gotten your phone covered, but you got all your other devices covered
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And you got enough ports you can actually make a friend and help someone else charge too
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So all that's very nice. And I think they've done a very nice job
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It's a very nice feel to it. It feels like it's going to last a long time because it feels like it's well made
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And that, my friends, is important. So before I tell you the price, and I think you'll be pretty impressed by the price
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But before we get there, let me ask if you can subscribe to my channel
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I really appreciate it. Cool. Now, this is the Inateck 45 Watt USB-C and USB 3.0 charger
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And it will cost you $28.99 at Amazon.com. And that includes this rather nice, let me unplug it from the other end
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It includes this rather nice USB-C to USB-C cable too. Which they didn't really have to include, but it was really nice of them to do that
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So I'm going to plug everything back in and get it up to 100%, which means I will catch you in my next video
