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Originally Posted by Renate
I was just at the "big box" store looking at their assortment of USB cables.
The majority of them are USB 2.0 only but you have to look at the fine print to see that.
Even the USB 3.x ones you can never tell if they mean 2 pair or 4 pair (+ the pair for USB 2.0)
The biggest competition is for Watts.
It seems that people need 100 Watt cables for their phones.
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Insert rant about High-Speed, Super-Speed, Ludicrous-Speed.... Wait, that's Spaceballs: The USB Cable.
Not phones. Notebook computers. USB-C PD is the collection of standards for power connectors for notebooks up to 100W PD, with Apple leading the charge for 240W PD. At least Apple have clearly labeled packaging for their cables.
I'm going to say I do NOT want coax power in notebooks.
Your typical coax power brick is literally a brick, a big, heavy block with little standardization. The coax brick I have today likely won't work on the replacement machine and will just be waste, same as the coax brick from my previous notebook and the one before that, and the one before that....
By extension that brick won't work with anything else I carry and/or travel with. I would much rather carry a small assortment of USB cables and use one or maybe two chargers for my notebook, my Steam Deck, my iPad, my iPhone, my Kobo, etc.