Comment by jonahrd
3 years ago
> "they're always changing their cables". It's obviously not true,
Last year Apple switched from USB-C charging to a new MagSafe charger on M1 Macbooks. USB-C was first introduced in 2018, moving away from the old MagSafe design. These are a very recent changes, so I'd say this still applies.
USB-C was 2016 but yeah. 2006 to 2022, the changes were MagSafe 1 -> MagSafe 2 -> USB-C -> MagSafe 3. That's enough changing that every new laptop you bought probably had a different way of charging, and the MagSafes were hardly different from each other.
But the alternative was you got a Dell/whatever laptop with some one-off charging mechanism.
Thankfully they do still charge on the USB port but yes it does seem odd they didn’t just give customers another usbc port instead.
I do quite like the usability of lightning, and I was quite upset when they cut it. I tried using 3rd party USB-C magnetic adapters, but they mostly suck. I welcome the dualism of new lightning + USB-C charging, the best of both worlds.
MagSafe has a lot of benefits. High wattage before the latest high wattage usb-c came out, and easily disconnects which is great for laptops.
Seriously , I’ve seen it save so many laptops in its current and prior generations.
You can use either, or both at the same time.