Say that to the graphics devision of computing please.
Comment on The EU common charger : USB-C
TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 5 months agoIt can already do 240 watts which is really excessive for a mobile computer. Technology trends toward lower power requirements, not higher.
Scribbd@feddit.nl 5 months ago
TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 5 months ago
Year after year it takes less power for the equivalent amount of processing capability. These devices only require so much now because people demanded they get exponentially stronger
barsoap@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Not excessive at all for a laptop, a gaming laptop may burn 400W at full tilt. Max power consumption really is more of a matter of how much heat dissipation the form factor allows in those instances: Just because you find a way to do more computation with less watts doesn’t mean that people won’t use it to put more computation in the same space.
stealthnerd@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I don’t think there are any 240 watt chargers on the market though despite it theoretically being supported. Last I read, there were some doubts around if it was truly feasible. Laptops that require more than 90 or so watts still come with proprietary chargers because they can’t charge at full rate over USB-C.
My Dell laptop is 240 watts and the only way to charge it at full rate over USB is to buy a proprietary $250 charger from Dell that provides two USB cords that must be plugged in together to achieve a combined 240 watts. The 90 watt charger from my old laptop won’t keep it running for more than an hour.
Anyway, hopefully we see 240 watt USB-C in the future but at the moment it seems to be vaporware. Maybe this ruling will push it forward.
holycrapwtfatheism@kbin.social 5 months ago
There's 240w usb-c on every common marketplace for US market, is that not the case for eu?
stealthnerd@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’m speaking from a US point of view. To my knowledge there are no 240 watt USB-C chargers in existence.
There are a handful that claim 240 watts but upon closer inspection only provide a max of ~100 watts per port.
There are cables sold with a 240 watt rating but no actual chargers.
Rootiest@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The Framework Laptop 16 has a 180W PD charger. It’s not the full 240W but it’s using that new standard and the laptop will work with 240W chargers when they hit the market.
abhibeckert@lemmy.world 5 months ago
They definitely exist. But there aren’t many devices that are compatible with them - the 240W chargers run at much higher voltage than regular USB (which I think caps out at 100W).
Also - only really large batteries (ones that you can’t take with you on an airplane for example) are able to charge at 240W without overheating. So there’s just not much demand for a charger that powerful.