Amber Neely
Eggtronic's sleek new Apple Power Bar charges your iPhone, Apple Watch, AirPods, and a MacBook Air or iPad all at once.
If you're the kind of person who has multiple iPhones and other gear, the Apple Power Bar may be the device for you. It features three fast wireless charging coils, allowing you to charge your iPhone, Apple Watch, and AirPods all at once. Alternatively, you can charge two iPhones at the same time. The Apple Watch charger pops up to hold your Apple Watch when needed and folds flat when it isn't.
On the side of the Power Bar is a USB-C port, which allows it to be used as a wired fast power bank to charge an iPad, iPhone, or a MacBook. The power bank detects and scales its power output depending on the device up to 53 watts.
The Eggtronic Apple Power Bar will charge a 15-inch or 16-inch MacBook Pro slowly, given the maximum power of 30W on USB-C. It will work well for the MacBook Air, including Apple's new M1 MacBook Air.
An internal 10,000mAh battery means you can power your devices on the go, making it an excellent travel accessory.
The Eggtronic Bar is Qi certified, USB-IF certified, and MFi certified and can be purchased for $149 at Eggtronic's site.
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2 Comments
It’s one USB-C port short, at least.
Assume you’re traveling, where outlets or plug adapters are always in short supply.
So you have USB-C AC adapter taking up one slot, now where can you hook up the MacBook and iPad?
Sure, one can arrange things differently: hook up the laptop to AC, the iPad and power bar each to the laptop (provided it has enough USB-C ports not otherwise in use), but that’s suboptimal, as the laptop tends to heat up, if it has to deliver a lot of charging power output.
Sleek? I’d describe that thing as the other side of chonky.