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finally a USBC cable that lights up
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stick around I'll tell you all about it
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hey dave taylor here again and i want to
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talk about USBC specifically i want to
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talk about USBC and the apple macbook
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line now the older MacBooks some of them
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actually had USB see but it's the new
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MacBook Pro with touch bar that has USB
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see nothing else four plugs all over the
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place and that's all you got and the
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problem is is that it's really hard to
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know when you're plugged in are you
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charging are you charged for some reason
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and I don't really get it Apple just
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decided we don't need to know
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so Apple ships these sort of cables they
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have no indicator they also have no
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MagSafe so they don't break away your
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computer or this breaks if someone trips
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kind of a drag different issue but they
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don't light up so there's no way to know
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when your computer's plugged in is it
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charging is it fully charged and more
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than once I've already found with my
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MacBook Pro that I plug it in at the
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beginning of the evening and then the
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next morning I go and I look and somehow
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it didn't work it didn't charge I don't
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know what that's all about but I
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certainly then go oh man five percent
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five percent and I need to work today so
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I really like the Moshe cable so this
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regular Apple cable yeah whatever that's
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so instead Moshe has a USB C charging
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cable same basic idea two meters long
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and it has a little what they call smart
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LED indicator and it's on both ends let
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me give you a close-up here and what's
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happening is that when I plug it in it's
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orange right and oops
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slightly flaky but there we go
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so it's our Ajay musta loosened it when
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I picked it up and what happens is that
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it goes orange to show you it's charging
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and then when it's fully charged it'll
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actually turn green now what's
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interesting about that is that when I
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look on the MacBook Pro screen it can
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show me that it's at a hundred percent
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and the Moshi will still be orange but
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after a couple of seconds
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then what will happen is the Moshe will
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go fully green and so I think the actual
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operating system is a little optimistic
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about when you're fully charged now to
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be fair I really like these and these
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are now my standard cable because I
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really want that indicator but it's not
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a hundred percent reliable it's a tiny
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bit flaky now one of the things about
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these cables is that they have the
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indicator light on both ends and what
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the company tells me is it's so you
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don't have to worry about orientation on
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the wire but only the end that's plugged
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into the computer is supposed to light
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up so right now that's working fine this
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end that's plugged into the computer is
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lit up and the end that's plugged into
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the power adapter isn't but there are
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many times that I plug it into the
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adapter like here and it's also lit up
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now so I don't fully understand what's
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going on and once in a blue moon I'll
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plug it in and it won't light up or
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it'll light up after a couple of seconds
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I guess that's the smart LED needing a
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quick shot of espresso or something but
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even if it only worked fifty percent of
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the time that's fifty percent more than
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any other USBC cable is going to do for
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you with your new MacBook Pro so it
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actually works way the heck more than 50
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percent probably 99.5 percent let's
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shall we say but you know even if it
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lights up or doesn't light up and you
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can see the transformer end now and it's
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lit up but a second ago it wasn't lit
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you know whatever it's such a huge step
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forward and I really have to recommend
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this it's just a USBC cable it's not
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rocket science this isn't super
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complicated but seriously Apple what's
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the deal with us having no way to know
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if our computers charging or fully
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charged without actually booting up that
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just seems really lame so thank goodness
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moshe has come out these cables on the
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box you point out one other thing on the
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box it actually says that it's good for
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up to 60 watt connectors but in fact the
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old macbook charger is 61 watts and the
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charger that comes with the new macbook
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pro is 87 watts and I was like hmm so I
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checked with the company and they said
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all good they're actually gonna redo
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their packaging it's totally safe you
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is the Moshe cables with your 87 watt
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adapter and everyone's happy the lights
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will light up everything will work so
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that's worth knowing so I know you want
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to get one of these cuz really seriously
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this is probably the best of all USB C
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cables on the market right now and you
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got to have it cuz you've got to be able
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to charge your computer right so you can
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pick up one for 3495 at Moshi dot-com or
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you can check out some other sites
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online and who knows maybe you can find
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it slightly cheaper in any case this is
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Dave Taylor and thank goodness third
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parties are picking up the slack because
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seriously Apple there's so much you did
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right with the new MacBook Pro but if
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you needed another 30 days to be able to
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get things just right you should have
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taken them so Steve Taylor and oh whoa
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hold on before you leave before you go
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and buy yourself one of these cables
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thank you great ok now I will catch you
