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tell me I did not just look this thing up and see a barrel jack power port 🤢
my 2017 laptop charges by USB-C, this hardware looks gorgeous in every other way but the only excuse for a barrel jack is if you need to move more than 100 watts, and even that last holdout for the barrel jack is dated
It can charge by USB-C apparently, but the barrel jack is still there 😔
barrel jacks are less likely to break, I've had laptops with barrel jack charging ports that are still working for 15 years but I've had two malfunctioning USB-C ports in phones that were less than 4 years old.
Is that really a fair comparison? Due to both usage and battery capacity you would probably do way more connector insertions on a phone than on a laptop in the same span of time