{"id":87411,"date":"2020-10-12T18:23:00","date_gmt":"2020-10-12T15:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/you-can-find-usb-c-adapter-cables-for-charging-some-older-laptops-review-geek\/"},"modified":"2020-10-12T18:23:00","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T15:23:00","slug":"you-can-find-usb-c-adapter-cables-for-charging-some-older-laptops-review-geek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/you-can-find-usb-c-adapter-cables-for-charging-some-older-laptops-review-geek\/","title":{"rendered":"#You Can Find USB-C Adapter Cables for Charging Some Older Laptops \u2013 Review Geek"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#You Can Find USB-C Adapter Cables for Charging Some Older Laptops \u2013 Review Geek”<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I love my ThinkPad T450s. It\u2019s loaded up with cheap RAM, its dual-chamber battery system lets me keep working for an entire day, and the keyboard is freakin\u2019 fantastic. But I\u2019ve kept it on the shelf for a couple of years because I\u2019ve transitioned away from bulky chargers to an all-USB-C mobile lifestyle. That is until I found an adapter on Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

See, most laptops made before about 2017 use a proprietary charger of one kind or another, either the old barrel ports that come in so many different flavors you need a little ratchet set of adapters if you lose it, or something entirely unique, like my ThinkPad\u2019s rectangular charger or the older MacBook magnetic cables. So trying to charge any of them off of a standard USB-C charger would require some kind of Frankenstein mod of the laptop\u2019s motherboard.<\/p>\n

Not so anymore. Vendors have started making charging cables with USB-C on one end and proprietary charging cable heads on the other. These are more than just standard cables\u2014they\u2019ve got circuit boards inside that regulate the power flow and won\u2019t fry your laptop or your charger. Because my T450s\u2019s original charger cable from Lenovo uses 45 watts (20 volts x 2.25 amps), I ordered this gallium nitrate USB-C charger<\/a> to match it, and I\u2019m off to the races. It\u2019s app<\/a>roximately a third of the volume of my original charger, and I can use it for all my other stuff, too.<\/p>\n

A quick Amazon search found USB-C cables or adapters for Apple Magsafe<\/a>\u00a0and various barrel ports<\/a>, so with a little digging you should be able to find options for plenty of older laptop models. Just make sure you have a charger that can meet or beat the electricity input of your original charger.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n