{"id":123061,"date":"2021-05-26T23:22:17","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T06:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/usb-c-is-about-to-go-from-100w-to-240w-enough-to-power-beefier-laptops"},"modified":"2021-05-26T23:22:17","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T06:22:17","slug":"usb-c-is-about-to-go-from-100w-to-240w-enough-to-power-beefier-laptops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/usb-c-is-about-to-go-from-100w-to-240w-enough-to-power-beefier-laptops","title":{"rendered":"USB-C is about to go from 100W to 240W, enough to power beefier laptops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/usb-c-is-about-to-go-from-100w-to-240w-enough-to-power-beefier-laptops2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Soon, the majority of portable PCs won\u2019t need to be equipped with an ugly barrel jack and a proprietary power brick to charge. The USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) has just announced that it\u2019s more than doubling the amount of power you can send over a USB-C cable to 240 watts, which means you\u2019ll eventually be able to plug in the same kind of multipurpose USB-C cable you currently use on lightweight laptops, tablets, and phones to charge all but the beefiest gaming laptops.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Extended Power Range.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soon, the majority of portable PCs won\u2019t need to be equipped with an ugly barrel jack and a proprietary power brick to charge. The USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) has just announced that it\u2019s more than doubling the amount of power you can send over a USB-C cable to 240 watts, which means you\u2019ll eventually be [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mobile-phones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/542"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}