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Secret Santa has sent the last item from my wishlist, and it is insanely great. The Mcdodo CA-882 Digital Pro 100W PD Fast Charge Type-C to Type-C Data Cable carries 5 A of power which takes you to 100 W with 20 V. This is however not the perfect data cable, because it carries data only at USB 2.0 speeds: 480 Mbit/s. Thunderbolt goes up to 40.000 MBit/s.
What makes this cable insanely great is the display with tells you how much juice is actually flowing through the cable. When you charge an iPad Pro with a 65W USB PD charger, it will pull 40 W through the Thunderbolt port, but only 24 W through the Magic Keyboard port. If you need to quickly charge your iPad Pro, always go through the main port, not the auxiliary charging port on the keyboard.
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As you know by now, I like to knock on the claim that USB-C will put an end to the multitude of chargers we own, and that is simply not true. Here I am charging the Lenovo Tab P13 Pro with the same charger that allowed the iPad Pro to pull 40 W of power and I am only getting 18 W. Replacing this standard charger with the one provided by Lenovo will take it up to 30 W, because the tablet negotiates a special 10 V and 3 A mode. Without digging deeper I assume that it was only getting 2 A with 9 V from the RealPower charger. In both cases that tablet was claiming it was rapid charging.
This is a quality Nylon braided cable and it’s only 12 Euro. Highly recommended. Now I need to find something else to put on my wishlist. And it’s all because of you, Secret Santa. Thank you! You made me happy today.