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A 45w usb c charger is the size most people should actually buy: enough to charge a laptop at a useful rate, more than enough for any phone or tablet, and small enough to live in a bag rather than on a desk — which is the whole argument for gallium nitride.
A gan charger uses gallium nitride semiconductors in place of silicon. They switch faster and waste less energy as heat, so the same output fits in a smaller shell and runs cooler doing it. That is the entire practical difference: a 45w usb c charger built this way is roughly the size the old 20W bricks were.
Cooler also means longer-lived, which is the quiet argument for a gan charger. Heat is what kills a charger, and a gan charger that runs cool is one that is still working in three years.
A 13-inch laptop or an ultrabook charges at full speed, or close to it. A MacBook Air, a Dell XPS 13, most Chromebooks — all comfortable on a 45w usb c charger. Larger machines will charge from a 45w usb c charger, just slower, because they negotiate down to what the charger offers rather than refusing it.
Phones and tablets are nowhere near the limit of a 45w usb c charger. Any modern phone takes what it can and stops; the extra headroom simply means it gets there quickly and then idles.
This usb c wall charger and the device agree the rate between them over USB Power Delivery, so there is nothing to set. Plug in a small device and this usb c wall charger supplies a small amount; plug in a laptop and it supplies the lot.
USB Power Delivery is the standard everything modern uses — phones, tablets, laptops, handhelds. Quick Charge 3.0 is Qualcomm’s older scheme, still used by a long tail of Android phones and accessories that predate widespread PD.
Carrying both means this usb c wall charger fast-charges the new phone and the older one in the drawer. It is the reason to choose a charger like this over a PD-only unit at the same price.
The practical case for a 45w usb c charger is subtraction. One usb c wall charger replaces the phone charger, the tablet charger and the laptop charger with one thing in the bag, because everything worth charging now takes USB-C.
That matters most when travelling with a 45w usb c charger. A gan charger of this size and an appropriate cable is the entire kit, and it fits in the pocket where the old laptop brick did not.
This usb c wall charger has overcurrent, overvoltage, over-temperature and short-circuit protection built in, and the charger negotiates rather than pushing power at a device that has not asked for it.
More importantly, it carries the approval mark required to sell a mains-powered charger in Australia. That is not a marketing line — it is the difference between a legal charger and one that should not be in the country. It is worth checking on anything you plug into a wall, from anyone.
If you are choosing between this and our 40W, take this one. The price is the same, the size is the same, and on a 45w usb c charger the extra headroom costs you nothing. The 40W exists for buyers who specifically want it; for everyone else, a 45w usb c charger is the better default.
Charges any USB-C device that supports USB Power Delivery or Quick Charge 3.0:
A USB-C cable is not included — the charger has a USB-C port and you supply the lead that suits your device. Charging rate is whichever is lower: what this charger offers, or what your device asks for.
Core Connect Aust is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Apple, Samsung, Google, Dell or Qualcomm. All brand and model names are trademarks of their respective owners and are used here for compatibility reference only.
This 45w usb c charger is stocked in Melbourne and ready to go — order before 10am and your usb c wall charger ships the same day via Australia Post with insurance, backed by our 180-day warranty and a team who can tell you whether your laptop will actually take the full 45W.
One brick, everything charged. Order your gan charger today.
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