Hyper’s 245W charger and battery pack now available to all
by Jon Porter from The Verge - All Posts on (#62J65)
The 245W charger shown charging two laptops, a tablet, and a phone. | Image: Hyper After initially crowdfunding them via an Indiegogo campaign, the HyperJuice 245W GaN Desktop Charger charger and the 245W USB-C Battery Pack are now generally available for $200 and $250, respectively. Judging from this story from AppleInsider it looks like both quietly went on sale last week, but Hyper's official announcement is somewhat confusingly dated both August 15th and August 8th.
While the headline feature is 245W of power output, neither the battery pack nor the charger are able to provide all that power to a single device (there's no support for the USB-C PD 3.1 spec that supports fast charging at up to 240W, for example). Instead, the focus is on charging multiple power-hungry devices like laptops simultaneously.
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