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a power adapter for your MacBook Pro
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that's this small let's check this out
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Dave Taylor here and I've had MacBook
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Pros for a really long time which means
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up dealing with these power bricks for a
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really long time now probably not
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entirely fair to call this a brick
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because frankly some of the PC laptops I
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have have literal bricks they are these
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huge things with wires coming out I
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guess some of these companies forget
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they should actually pay attention to
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that whatever size it is though you have
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to end up toting it around all the time
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and as you can see with the USBC
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particular unit you end up having a
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separate wire so there's all these
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logistics pieces but mostly it's the
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size yeah this is not massive but still
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seems like there should be a better way
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and it turns out there is this is the
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energy power gear 60 C USB C laptop
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adapter and it is pretty sweet so they
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had a Kickstarter campaign to create
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this the company actually has a huge
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history and has done a ton of stuff with
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power chargers and everything they have
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lots of experience so they did this
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through a Kickstarter campaign and had
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just under 2600 backers and raised over
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three hundred and twelve thousand
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dollars so I managed to get my hands on
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one early so turns out that much to my
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surprise gonna be honest it works but
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here's what's funny is that when you
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look on the Mac hardware profile it
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turns out that it says that it's not
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charging because it's only 60 watts only
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60 watts Apple sells a 61 or 67 watt
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charger right but this is only 60 watts
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so this hardware and the software will
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tell you what's not charging but you
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know what it is charging go figure
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not only is it charging but it's
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charging at a good clip I actually
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tested this and it gave me 44 percent
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charge on my 2016 MacBook Pro with touch
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bar so now you know which unit I have it
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gave me a 44 percent charge in an hour
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that is pretty good that is comparable
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official Apple charger and obviously
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look at that size difference for people
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that like smaller things this is a
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smaller thing this you could actually
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slip into your pocket or purse
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pretty darn easily now it weighs three
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ounces super heavy I know
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85 grams really nice so nice and it
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includes this 1.5 meter cable and I
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don't fully understand why but there's
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this like lump on the USBC cable but
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here's what I did I tried it with other
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USB see cables like this one and it
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worked perfectly fine so you plug it in
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and you're good to go and it's charging
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so really it's just another charger
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super easy to work with now the unit
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features protection for you from
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overcurrent over-voltage over
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temperature over power short-circuit
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sensing so it has all the smarts that
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you want in a modern power charger and
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like I said it also charges pretty fast
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so 44% in an hour means that in two
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hours your laptop will go from dead to
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almost fully charged two hours and a bit
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will get you there so that's very nice
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one more thing is it does have the
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ability to fold the prongs down I'm not
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a huge fan of the way they designed that
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piece because you have to reach in to
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get the prongs out I'm not sure why they
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didn't just make a slightly less plastic
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here so you could get to it but
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seriously if that's the biggest problem
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I have this is a winner so only thing to
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talk about now is the price but before
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we get there if I can ask for you to
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so the energy power gear 60c USB C
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laptop adapter let's pull the prongs out
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right so you see what it is so this will
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cost you a hundred and fifteen dollars
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and it will be on Amazon so check there
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a huge fan it does not get superhot
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that's the only other thing I want to
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mention and this is now a my computer
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bag and this stays in my office
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I'm sorry Apple this is nice but oh my
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gosh I really like having something even
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smaller so this is Dave Taylor my
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computer needs charging and that means
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I'll catch you in my next week
