Ugreen is teasing a brand new 300W GaN charger with sufficient ports to cost a suitcase-worth of gadgetry. The $269 machine has 4 USB-C ports and one USB-A port, and spokesperson Roger Wan says it can go on sale in mid-August. Probably the most highly effective port is ready to ship as a lot as 140W by way of the PowerDelivery 3.1 spec, sufficient to fast charge a modern 16-inch MacBook Pro when used with Apple’s MagSafe 3 to USB-C cable, even with 4 different gadgets being charged concurrently.
With each USB connection in use, the charger can present 140W by way of its first USB-C port, 65W from its second, 45W from its third, 20W from its fourth, and 22.5W from its USB-A port, in response to Ugreen’s desk under. However when you’ve received fewer gadgets plugged in then a few of these ports can present extra energy. The second and third USB-C ports can apparently go as much as 100W, whereas the fourth can present 45W of energy.
My huge query is how sizzling the charger goes to get when its offering energy to that many gadgets. Ugreen advertises that its new 300W charger has a thermal monitoring system in-built that takes a temperature studying each half a second to stop overheating. However after we reviewed its Nexode 140W charger not too long ago we discovered it received “uncomfortably” sizzling, even when it was technically beneath Ugreen’s thermal restrict.
Ugreen’s new $269 charger is clearly an costly accent, but it surely’s nice to see a compact choice for individuals who want to offer loads of energy to loads of completely different gadgets concurrently. Final yr we had been excited to see 140W-compatible chargers with three ports, and now Ugreen is providing a compact charger with 5. It’s not arduous to see this being the one accent you want for a vacation or work journey, even when you’re carrying round a power-hungry laptop computer, cellphone, video games console, digital camera, and wi-fi headphones.
Sooner or later, nevertheless, we must be ready for laptops to attract much more energy over a single USB-C cable. The newest energy commonplace supports as much as 240W and we’ve already seen cables and laptops that may deal with that a lot wattage. Now, we simply want energy adapters which can be as much as the duty.