Bulky. Heavy. Ugly. Expensive. Good Riddance.<\/p><\/div>\n

Some of you might argue that we always had a choice of 3rd party laptop chargers. While that’s true, most people still to stick to getting replacement parts from the original manufacturers, you know, just in case something went wrong.\u00a0USB chargers, on the other hand, aren’t saddled with this psychological burden; Most are willing to risk charging their thousand dollar phones with cheap USB wall chargers.<\/p>\n

Which is good news for us of course, because, on top of the usual cheap selections, we’ll soon have a large choice of affordable yet functionally and aesthetically well-designed USB chargers that can not only be used to charge laptops, but also all the other peripherals we use.<\/p>\n

1 cable AND 1 charger, of our choice, for all devices.<\/p>\n

Ain’t that cool?<\/p>\n

What took them so long.<\/p>\n

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I’ve always been a little annoyed by USB connectors. I mean, why bother with the larger, ‘standard’ USB connectors when the smaller micro-USB plugs suffice? You standardize connectors across large and small devices and everybody wins because there’s no need for different types of cables and the cornucopia of bloody annoying adapters. Things are looking up though. It looks like my prayers has been answered with the introduction of the latest iteration of the USB connector, USB-C. What is USB Type-C It’s much smaller, about the size of a micro-USB plug (yay!). Like Apple’s Lightning connector, it connects both ways. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1960,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[12,3,13],"tags":[49,244,242,243],"class_list":["post-1951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-randomness","category-rants","category-tech","tag-apple","tag-macbook","tag-usb","tag-usb-c"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.theaaronloy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/usbc2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theaaronloy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theaaronloy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theaaronloy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theaaronloy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theaaronloy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1951"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.theaaronloy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2043,"href":"https:\/\/www.theaaronloy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions\/2043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theaaronloy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theaaronloy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theaaronloy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theaaronloy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}