it also allows the manufacturers to increase the price of their chargers. Dell uses the 1-Wire protocol to communicate with the charger, and [Xuan] sniffed the communication using a MSP430.

The Dell XPS 13 is one of the latest laptops that comes with the same 60W adapter we noticed in the Dell XPS 13 Plus (2023) but the story with laptop chargers is pretty old. You get a brand-new ...

With 240-watt charge rates ... since even a cable as average as these will perform fine for charging a phone, tablet, or Dell XPS 13- or MacBook Air-class laptop with no issues at all.

Dell’s power management did not even recognize that a charger was plugged in. That means this adapter is much less useful if you need to quick charge more power-hungry gadgets in a pinch. And I should ...

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So, the Pixel 9 Pro XL is the first Google phone to get above 30W charging when using the official 45W charger. The results are more interesting than you might have expected. According to Google ...

(RTTNews) - Google has recently unveiled an upgraded 45-watt charger designed to significantly improve the charging capabilities of its latest Pixel 9 smartphones. This new charger serves as a ...

so you can ensure it’s charging at the power level it’s supposed to. For example, if your phone supports 65-watt fast charging but is only charging at 30 watts, you’ll know something is wrong.