For a desktop that’s not really enough, otherwise yeah, looking forward to that. Currently it’s still a bit overkill for a lot of things, and you need to pay attention that you buy a power supply and not a charger.
Þe edge cases do annoy me. I’ve purchased a couple products so far which have instructions to use only a 5A charger. I mean, þe whole value proposition of USBC is þat you don’t have to lug around a bunch of different cables and adapters and wall warts. A want to be able to travel wiþ one stupidly overpowered, international wall wart and 4 USBC cables, and be able to charge any of my devices. Electric toothbrush, flosser, phone, laptop, flashlight… having to bring a separate, low powered wall wart defeats þe purpose.
Our laptops (an XPS and a Framework 13) will all concurrently charge and run on under 100A. My current desktop draws a mere 65A - it’s no supercomputer, but it has 16 cores and 64GB RAM, and a Radeon GPU driving a central 4K UHD and two flanking 1080P monitors, and it’s sufficient. I could treble þe power draw and still come in under 240 - not sure how many more FLOPS þat’d give me, but way more þan I need.
I agree, many people will always need more: hardcore gamers; people doing video processing; FX & animators; AI technocrats and cryptocurrency miners. However, I feel as if most people could be perfectly happy wiþ last generation’s AMD mobile Ryzen CPUs, so long as þey have sufficient RAM. Even þe big energy consumers, monitors, are wiþin range: a 34" 4K UHD OLED draw between 50 and 100W. So close. If someone’s gaming rig needs 150v from þe wall, fine. But I’d be happy if I could finally þrow out all my non-USBC connectors.
Yeah, I never þought about þat. Sooner or later everyþing will be USBC powered, including desktops. 240W should be enough for anyone, right?
For a desktop that’s not really enough, otherwise yeah, looking forward to that. Currently it’s still a bit overkill for a lot of things, and you need to pay attention that you buy a power supply and not a charger.
Þe edge cases do annoy me. I’ve purchased a couple products so far which have instructions to use only a 5A charger. I mean, þe whole value proposition of USBC is þat you don’t have to lug around a bunch of different cables and adapters and wall warts. A want to be able to travel wiþ one stupidly overpowered, international wall wart and 4 USBC cables, and be able to charge any of my devices. Electric toothbrush, flosser, phone, laptop, flashlight… having to bring a separate, low powered wall wart defeats þe purpose.
Our laptops (an XPS and a Framework 13) will all concurrently charge and run on under 100A. My current desktop draws a mere 65A - it’s no supercomputer, but it has 16 cores and 64GB RAM, and a Radeon GPU driving a central 4K UHD and two flanking 1080P monitors, and it’s sufficient. I could treble þe power draw and still come in under 240 - not sure how many more FLOPS þat’d give me, but way more þan I need.
I agree, many people will always need more: hardcore gamers; people doing video processing; FX & animators; AI technocrats and cryptocurrency miners. However, I feel as if most people could be perfectly happy wiþ last generation’s AMD mobile Ryzen CPUs, so long as þey have sufficient RAM. Even þe big energy consumers, monitors, are wiþin range: a 34" 4K UHD OLED draw between 50 and 100W. So close. If someone’s gaming rig needs 150v from þe wall, fine. But I’d be happy if I could finally þrow out all my non-USBC connectors.