The MagC is available for an early-bird price of $29 on Kickstarter, and expects to ship in December, although the usual crowdfunding warnings apply. On the less useful side of things, the MagC resurrects the original L-shaped connector from the first generation of the MagSafe “to honor Steve Job’s original design,” which is a terrible reason to embrace a worse design. Otherwise, most interesting addition from the MagC, aside from the relatively low profile of the adapter, is that the connector for the wall plug also accepts a USB-C port, instead of being a wholly proprietary power cable. (MagC claims their cable supports up to 100W.) Unlike most of the other breakaway cables, the MagC claims to support Thunderbolt 3 data transfer as well as charging, which is nice. It works more or less the same as most of the other adapters: a small USB-C attachment is plugged into one of the ports by your laptop, which a magnetic connector then attaches to in turn to charge.
We’ve covered a bunch of these in the past: Griffin’s BreakSafe cable, which was one of the first to reach the market the MagNeo, which was the first to offer charging and data the AnyWatt dongle, a Kickstarter campaign that promises to let you use your old MagSafe chargers with your new MacBook and even Apple is rumored to be working on a solution of some kind.īut it seems that the marketplace isn’t quite saturated enough yet, which is why we have two new entrants in the “USB-C MagSafe adapter” field making the rounds this week.įirst up is the MagC, another Kickstarter project that claims to offer “the best of three worlds” in combining USB-C and MagSafe. In the time since the 12-inch MacBook launched in 2015 - and particularly in the wake of the more recent USB-C MacBook Pros from last year - there have been no shortage of enterprising companies looking to fill the magnetic charging void that Apple has left on its laptop. And the jury is still out as to whether or not that was the right move. In the past, Apple has made no secret of its efforts to enforce its MagSafe patents, so it was a little surprising to see them switch to USB-C.
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One of the subtler design changes in Apple’s recent MacBook and MacBook Pro models was the replacement of Apple’s magnetically detaching MagSafe charger with standard USB-C ports for charging the laptops.
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