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> RAVPower PD Pioneer 65W

$38.99 From RAVPower, ravpower.com

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4 RAVPower’s second entry in this group is a wall–mounting charger that’s surprising­ly compact, at a claimed 30% smaller than other 60W chargers but feeling even smaller. It has a USB–C port with Power Delivery and a USB–A which they call “iSmart.” There’s intelligen­t power distributi­on so the full 65W can be delivered over USB–C when a single device is connected, and when a second device is plugged into the USB–A port this is split, with 45W going to the USB–C port and up to 18W to the USB–A port. Performanc­e was in line with the PC136 with two devices connected to it and thus the power allocation behaved the same way it does in this model. It charged the MacBook Pro in 2h 13m and the iPhone 12 in 1h 38m when charged separately, and slightly longer when both devices were charged at once. Achieving 65W in such a tiny package as this is testament to how GaN chargers will change the world of charging.

Super–compact

Full 65W over USB–C

Intelligen­t power switching

Affordable

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