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Power Up with the Anker Prime 65W Power Bank and 100W 3-Port Charger -- DEMO & REVIEW
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May 29, 2025
Anker has been making chargers for a long time, so it's no surprise that the new Anker Prime 65W Power Bank and Anker Prime 100W 3-Port Charger are both great. But how do they really work? Tech expert Dave Taylor pulls out a bunch of gear and tests out various power configurations, demonstrating how each affects the available power of the other devices. Conclusion: these should probably be on your must-buy list! Use code “Akcoupert20ch” for 20% OFF through Anker.com: Anker Charger: https://bit.ly/47h6SAk Power Bank: https://bit.ly/3MyB93Z Or check them out at Amazon: 65W 9600mAh Power Bank: https://amzn.to/47x3gdI 100W 3-Port Charger: https://amzn.to/3ZxeBIS Visit Dave's Q&A Web site at: https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ #anker #powerbank #charger #100wcharger #65wcharger #mac #pc #askdavetaylor
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these are some cool new Chargers let's
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check them
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out Dave Taylor here and let's talk
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about power I know I talk about it a lot
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because all our devices needed we need
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to be charging our devices with some
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frequency now my MacBook Pro is getting
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to the end of its battery life the
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battery health is not great I get about
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2 or 3 hours which means I'm constantly
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charging it now Apple has Chargers but
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they still have that sort of brick that
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square thing and it's big so a lot of
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third-party companies have been looking
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at newer more modern Technologies and
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saying we can do better than Apple and
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they're right but it's not just my
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MacBook it's my phone it's my earbuds
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it's headphones there's so much that we
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need to power nowadays that it's just
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sort of this endless parade of how do I
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charge it where's a wall plug you know
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do I have a charging battery or power
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bank you know I'm at an event and I'm
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running out of battery and I need to be
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able to call someone for a pickup or
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something it can get very stressful it
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can also get very stressful at trade
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shows because there you are and you need
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to take pictures cuz that's why you're
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there and your phone's running out of
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juice what are you going to do so ankor
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reached out to me and said we have some
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really cool new gear based on our latest
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gallium nitride technology or G and and
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they sent me two devices and they're
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kind of different but they're kind of
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the same so let's start with the easier
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one this is the anchor Prime let me flip
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that out the anchor Prime 100 wat
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USBC thre Port charger so that's a 100
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wat charger and it is significantly
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smaller than those apple re you know
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square chargers in fact they say it's
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43% smaller than Apple's 96 W charger
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remember this is 100 W charger so it has
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two USBC ports and one usba a port the
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usba a port as is appropriate has a
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maximum of 22.5 Watts but those USBC
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ports you can push out a lot of wattage
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now we should talk math because the
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reality is that when you have like a 100
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watt charger you don't get three times
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100 Watts if you plug three devices in
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you take that 100 watts and you divide
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it by the number of things plugged in
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not evenly so again if I plug in
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something on the usba and put something
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on the
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USBC then that usba will pull a maximum
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of 22.5 watts and then the USBC will get
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what's left over if you want all 100
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Watts you just plug in one thing to USBC
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it's pretty straightforward right so
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this features active Shield 2.0 which
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protect you from overheating and
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overcharging and all of the bad things
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that can happen with poorly designed
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Chargers anchors the number one
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third-party charger company in the world
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I think they got that figured out so
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also comes with the 24-month warranty if
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you're stressing about that but you
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shouldn't be so three ports on one side
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foldable prongs on the other side so you
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just plug that into the wall or I happen
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to have a handy power port here and then
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you're ready to go but let me just talk
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briefly about the other one and then I'm
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going to do some tests and we're going
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to look and try to understand how this
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all works and see if it's really giving
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us the maximum possible wattage we'll
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get there now the other device they sent
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me is even more cool so see I'll push
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this button so you see that little
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display on the front this is the anchor
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Prime 99600 mamp hour 65 wat power bank
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so it has a battery in it and it has two
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USB ports on the side and then in the
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back again it has those folding wall
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prongs so you could plug it into the
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wall plug your devices in your devices
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will charge and this will refill its
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battery and it will show you its current
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battery level so I'm at 83% right now
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but you can also plug devices in and get
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a charge without actually having this
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plugged into the wall because batteries
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so it's a 65 wat fast charger or if you
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use both of them then you're going to
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get 45 Watts on one and 25 or 20 watts
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on the other and again if you look at
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this closeup you can see the lower ones
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the higher power that's why it has that
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teeny tiny little icon next to it so
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power delivery 3.0 or pd3.0 PPS those
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are both protocols so that your device
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talks and negotiates with the power
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source so that it gets the maximum safe
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water AG different devices can handle
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different amount of wattage um the
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display on the front is actually a 1.3
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in smart LCD display and this also has
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active Shield but while this is active
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Shield 2.0 this has active Shield 3.0 so
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it also protects against overcharging
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and overheating and everything but it
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does it even better so this is the world
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we live in right where things
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incrementally update and we never really
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understand the difference but so if I to
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say both of these are going to make sure
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you don't have any bad experiences so
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this not only comes with the two USBC
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ports comes with a handy little carrying
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lanyard and it comes with uh USBC to
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USBC cable but this is a 100 watt rated
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cable so that's kind of interesting cuz
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this is a 65 watt charger but if you use
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it with this one you can get that full
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100 Watts now what does that mean
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standard USBC C cables max out at 65
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Watts then that's just the way they've
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been designed so if you want to get more
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than that a level of power coming
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through the wire you need to get a
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higher powered cable and they include
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one this is a premium product USBC to
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USBC up to 100 WTS and it has a very
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nice little soft cloth carrying bag if
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you want to use that so two really cool
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devices let's do some tests and then
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I'll tell tell you some about the
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dimensions and the price let's see so
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we're going to start with this one which
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is the anchor Prime 100 watt so I have a
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PC I have a Mac I have an Android I have
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an iPhone I got all sorts of devices I
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got a lot of cables too so let's start
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with my MacBook Pro and what I'm going
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to do is I'm actually going to turn on
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screen recording let me just get all
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this stuff set up give me a second okay
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I have things set up and what I'm
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running here is I'm running a program
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called system information which anyone
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on a Macintosh can find in applications
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utilities so it's in the utilities
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folder and it's really great cuz it
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shows you something that almost no
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devices tell you which is how much power
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is it actually getting so you can see
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that sadly my battery has a maximum
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capacity of 77% and the condition is
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service recommended so so not great but
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I have a nice short highly rated cable
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so this is rated for 100 watts and let's
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see I'm going to put it in the lower
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plug and then we're going to plug this
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into my
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computer
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and that should get us powered up and so
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now this is only one device from the 100
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wat charger and so now what I'm going to
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do is I'm going to actually do a refresh
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here let's see uh refresh
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information and so we'll come down a
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little bit and there's our charger so
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you can see AC charger information
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connected yes
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wattage 100 so this is getting 100 watts
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of power into my MacBook Pro right now
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that is pretty sweet so now with that
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going on let's plug in my pixel phone
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and we're going to plug that into the
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usba port
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and so this is a pixel 8A and I'm going
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to go ahead and just plug that in and
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we'll steal some power so now the phone
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it's not a very bright display but it
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does have a battery icon so now my phone
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is charging and that means it's taking
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away from that 100 Watts so let's
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refresh
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this and let's see where we are now so
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now you can see it's still powering it's
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still charging it's now it's 76 watts
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and if I plug in a third thing and why
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not let's do that in fact I'll just use
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the anchor cable and we'll plug in a
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third device and what I want to plug in
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is I want to plug in something that's
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also power hungry so we're going to plug
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in my Lenovo PC I to figure out where
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the port is but we'll do that and then
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we'll see how much power is left for my
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Mac so let's see here's this
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cable and normally I'm quite this
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disorganized with my charging but so
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this now has the light on so this is
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charging that's good so let's put this
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underneath and we'll do one more
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refresh let's see refresh information
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and we'll go down again and now
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unsurprisingly it has taken that
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7574 watts and it's divided it across
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the two devices and apparently the Nova
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is a little more greedy so the Mac is
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getting 30 WS the Lenovo is charging and
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let's see my Android phone is also still
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charging so all three devices are
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sharing that 100 watts of power in
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exactly the way I was talking about this
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is mathematics you actually take the
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number just divide it up based on all
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the different devices so if I actually
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plugged my MacBook Pro into the
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usba it can't give it 100 Watts through
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usba remember I talked about that
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earlier so we'd still be constrained
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with how much power it can handle that
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is really cool now let's have some more
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fun while we still have my MacBook
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recording let's switch this out and I'm
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going to just plug this into the power
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bank now let's see so power bank has
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whoops um oh I seem to have gotten into
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settings that's handy but the power bank
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has 83% so if I plug it in to the lower
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Port which is for
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computers
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then it now shows that it's still
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charging which is great and on the front
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you I hope you can see I keep going into
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settings it's showing me that it's
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giving 62 Watts now let's do that
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refresh one more time and let's see how
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much power my computer says it's getting
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and it's getting 65 Watts so it's
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getting the maximum possible power out
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of the power bank it's not plugged into
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the wall so now imagine that you're
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between classes and you really need a
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little more charge for your computer and
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your computer's greedy on power this
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device can do a great job with that no
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problem and as you can see on the
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display it shows you how much power it's
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giving which is really cool so we'll do
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one more thing since I'm just in like
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hard demo mode so now let's go back and
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plug in that other computer the
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Lenovo and so now again they're
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competing for power and it shows me well
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let's see that it's now actually
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negotiating the protocol so what I've
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got here is this should be getting
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42.9 watts and then the Lenovo is
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getting 17.3 Watts so all right one more
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refresh and again I really love this
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program because it shows you this
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information let's see did I get that to
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work yeah so here we just have our
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refresh and now sure enough the Mac is
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saying I'm getting 45 watts and here's
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something really important to know
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pretty much all devices can handle less
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wattage than their maximum they'll just
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charge more slowly I have charged my
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MacBook Pro with 22 watts of input power
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the trick is just turn it off and close
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it and just let it stay plugged in and
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it's better than nothing right it gives
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you some power so let's see where we are
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here so now let me get all this stuff
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closed up so that's where we are and I
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think that both these devices are just
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really fantastic I mean I really like
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having these super flexible devices now
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of course other than this one cable from
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anchor that comes with this device you
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will need to byoc bring your own cables
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you can get USBC to USBC that short and
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I also have 10t USBC CA so there's a
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wide range they're super inexpensive if
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you don't have the cable length that you
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want but these are both terrific devices
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and by the way I was powering all those
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computers I'm still at 76% 9600 milliamp
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hours is a pretty decent size battery
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that is about 3x the size of my iPhone
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15 Pros battery so there's a lot of
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juice there if you'd go from 0 to 100 on
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your Big Mac or your big PC or something
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that's probably going to deplete it but
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that's its job so that's great now I do
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want to give you some dimensions and
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weight because these are a little bit
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more Hefty than I expected when I pulled
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them out of their boxes so this is the
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anchor Prime 100 watt 3port charger and
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it is 1.7 in by 1.5 in by 2.4 in and
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it's 6.5 oz so it's probably a little
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bit lighter than the Apple charger but
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it's certainly a whole heck of a lot
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more condensed and of course it has
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three ports instead of just one which
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means that your friends or even someone
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you don't even know can say hey can I
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borrow your charger and if you you can
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just say hey if you got a cable plug in
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and then this one this is the anchor
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Prime 9600 milliamp hour power bank this
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one's 4.5 in by 1.6 in by 1.7 in and
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this is 10.8 Oz now all power power
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banks are heavy it is the nature of the
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Beast that these require batteries and
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batteries have weight but I just really
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like both of these I think this is the
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perfect one for travel or trade shows or
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really long days at school and this is
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just the best one to have in your
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computer bag because it just gives you
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that enormous flexibility and as long as
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you have a 100 watt um rated power cable
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then you can give maximum wattage to
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whatever devices you have which gives
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you the fastest possible safe charge so
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really lots to love here this is just
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another set of fantastic products from
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anchor I have so many anchor Chargers in
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my house and office it's kind of
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ridiculous but you can see why they're
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really focused on great engineering so
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definitely ones to check out now we are
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going to talk about price but before we
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get there I'm going to ask you to
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this video of value I certainly hope you
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did I had a lot of fun with all this
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testing and experimenting so prices this
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pop this
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out this is the anchor Prime 100 wat
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USBC threport charger and it's
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$84.99 at amazon.com so 85 bucks
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basically
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and then this is the anchor Prime 9600
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milliamp 65 W 2 USBC port powerbank and
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it is
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$89.99 at amazon.com so this one's $5
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more than this one they both offer
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incredible functionality and are super
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useful if you want more wattage and
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don't need battery this is your choice
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if you want to have it be up to 65 Watts
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as we saw but you also want the
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convenience of having it be self-powered
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if you aren't convenient to a wall
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outlet then this is definitely a great
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choice that's everything I got I need to
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plug everything back in thanks for
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watching and I'll catch you in my next
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video
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