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I am a very satisfied owner of this amazing laptop and recently I noticed that in Windows there was some option related to USB charging. On a quick glance of the spec sheet, there is no obvious sign that this thing supports charging over the USB-C port, but I did notice there is a video where someone tests a bunch of power banks on the non-2in1 version of this laptop. I currently cannot afford any power banks nearly powerful enough to run this power-guzzling beast of a laptop, but I'd like to know if it does support USB-C Power Delivery since it might be useful in the future.

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Google says the following:

 

"USB C charging is not implemented on the Inspiron 7000 series - you must use the standard round power port.

The whole USB C/3.1/Thunderbolt story takes a while to sort out, but just because there's a USB C port, doesn't mean there's support for charging - or even USB 3.1 aboard."

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Ok, thanks. Somehow when searching Google that info didn't show up. I know USB-C is a mess and is used for 10 gazillion charge protocols. I'm surprised a $1500 laptop doesn't have USB-C charging as a feature, but knowing Dell's crazy pushing of proprietary accessories that isn't surprising at all.

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