{"id":33392,"date":"2021-08-16T16:23:11","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T20:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=33392"},"modified":"2021-08-16T16:23:11","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T20:23:11","slug":"cheap-magsafe-like-adapters-for-usb-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/16\/cheap-magsafe-like-adapters-for-usb-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheap MagSafe-Like Adapters for USB-C"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2021\/03\/04\/are-cheap-magsafe-like-adapters-for-usb-c-worthwhile\/\">Adam Engst<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2021\/03\/04\/are-cheap-magsafe-like-adapters-for-usb-c-worthwhile\/\">\n<p>Apple&rsquo;s desire to move to a single jack that could do double-duty for power and communications was the beginning of the end for MagSafe. USB-C offers those capabilities with a generally well-designed connector that is both slim and bidirectional. The only thing USB-C is not is magnetic.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Magnetic charging nubbins, which are readily available on Amazon from a variety of random Chinese manufacturers, have two parts. A tiny USB-C nubbin sticks out slightly from the side of the laptop, and an L-shaped magnetic connector connects to your existing USB-C charging cable on one side and grabs onto the nubbin with the other.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>In all honesty, the user experience with the magnetic nubbin isn&rsquo;t as good as Apple&rsquo;s MagSafe. Either the magnets aren&rsquo;t quite as strong, or the &ldquo;outie&rdquo; design of the magnetic nubbin means that it&rsquo;s more readily subjected to shearing forces that break the connection. The old MagSafe ports were &ldquo;innies,&rdquo; which made their connections a bit more secure. The other problem is that the standard Apple USB-C charging cable is thicker and less flexible than the old MagSafe charging cable. That makes it a little harder to connect successfully since the magnetic connector has to align perfectly with the nubbin, and it&rsquo;s more likely to be disconnected by movement.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>But, overall, he recommends them.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Engst: Apple&rsquo;s desire to move to a single jack that could do double-duty for power and communications was the beginning of the end for MagSafe. USB-C offers those capabilities with a generally well-designed connector that is both slim and bidirectional. The only thing USB-C is not is magnetic. [&#8230;] Magnetic charging nubbins, which are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-08-16T20:23:16Z","apple_news_api_id":"c0ebecef-8236-404e-843c-29eb222ee4da","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-08-16T20:23:17Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AwOvs74I2QE6EPCnrIi7k2g","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[452,30,365,280,1154],"class_list":["post-33392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-hardware","tag-mac","tag-magsafe","tag-power","tag-usb-c"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33393,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33392\/revisions\/33393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}