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Has anybody purchased one of these aftermarket USB C to mag safe type adapters?  I recently got a new laptop and this is my first one to charge with USB C.  I haven't hurt it yet, but I've tugged it once or twice while moving around and I'm kinda paranoid I'm going to end up snapping the charger off in the port or something.  But I also don't want to buy some cheap garbage that's going to short something out because the pins are too close and it lets hot touch to ground or something when attaching or detaching.

 

I found this one on Amazon, but I'm not sure those little pins on the insert wouldn't just snap off as well, but the portion of the adapter that goes into the laptop looks reasonably small.

 

Amazon link: https://a.co/d/btkCamY

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12 minutes ago, Gerowen said:

I found this one on Amazon, but I'm not sure those little pins on the insert wouldn't just snap off as well, but the portion of the adapter that goes into the laptop looks reasonably small.

I've been using these for years. They work fine, to the point of almost being unremarkable. I use them with USB 3.0 hubs for "docking" my laptop, but they don't pass TB3/4 reliably.

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From reading the 3-star Amazon reviews, the complaints are all focused on the weak magnet strength which I would actually consider to be a positive trait.

I believe Volta Cables has a ton of durability issues because the magnetic snapping force causes destruction of the contacts.

 

Looks like a good buy.

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13 minutes ago, AbydosOne said:

I've been using these for years. They work fine, to the point of almost being unremarkable. I use them with USB 3.0 hubs for "docking" my laptop, but they don't pass TB3/4 reliably.

That's good to know; I'll go ahead and pick up that two pack.  Mine is a Lenovo Ideapad 5 15ABA7 so they're USB 3.2 of some kind with Displayport 1.2 and such, but they're not Thunderbolt or USB 4, and I'm probably only really going to use it on the power cord since that's the thing that gets plugged/unplugged a lot.

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Got the one I linked in the mail and noticed one quirk of its behavior.  Both of my USB-C ports are USB 3.2 gen 1 I believe, and these adapters say USB 4 on them.  One of my USB-C ports has a little lightning bolt icon next to it, the other does not, though the laptop will charge from either port.  If I use the mag-safe adapter on the port with a lightning bolt next to it it forces my laptop into suspend mode, but it works fine on the other one.  Makes me wonder what the difference is, because the manual doesn't seem to specify any particular difference in the ports, despite one of them having a lightning bolt on it.image.thumb.png.7d341b73efb9e303e3902b9ec58818c0.png

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