Lenovo made a wireless charger for your laptop
The Go Wireless Charging Kit is coming in October
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- on June 24, 2021 2:23 am
Lenovo has announced a new product called the Go Wireless Charging Kit, which lets you retrofit wireless charging functionality to a wide variety of laptops. It makes use of Power by Contact technology from Energy Square, rather than the more common Qi standard.
The kit consists of a 3.2mm-thick brushed metal charging mat that you plug into the wall and leave at your desk, as well as a long wireless charging receiver that attaches to the base of your laptop and connects over USB-C. Once set up, Lenovo says it should charge most 13-inch to 14-inch non-touch notebooks of up to 65W with efficiency of 93 percent, and itll work with both Windows and macOS devices.
Wireless charging on laptops is pretty rare. Dell released what it called the worlds first wirelessly charging 2-in-1, the Latitude 7285, in 2017, although it was more of a tablet that could be charged through a keyboard base. Intel also made efforts to integrate the Rezence magnetic resonance charging standard into its laptop specifications, but nothing was ever released commercially.
Lenovo will release the Go Wireless Charging Kit in October for $139.99. Its part of a new range of Go-branded mobile accessories including a Qi-equipped power bank, wireless mice, headphones, and keyboards.
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Comments
This is not "wireless" charging. This is basically the same thing as magnetic cables for fitness trackers. There are pins on the Type-C strip and the metal squares are the contact pads. Not saying it is better or worse but this is not what we call "wireless" [like Qi] today
By Baris Senkal on 06.24.21 3:42am
I was super excited when I read the headline because I was thinking we were getting a new tech.
By mattopotamus on 06.24.21 8:25am
"Wireless" charging but it needs contact. Same BS as with phones. If I have to keep it in contact I might as well just plug it in and save:
1] some battery wear by not warming it so much
2] some time to actually charge [will charge a lot quicker on wire]
By teomor on 06.24.21 3:43am
2] some time to actually charge [will charge a lot quicker on wire
For most though, do we really care how long it takes to charge if its sat at a desk all day?
By Narom on 06.24.21 7:08am
OLD NEWS! Remember the Dell latitude Z, yeah that had it years ago!
By number1024 on 06.24.21 7:48am