Will it be possible to get a 240W USB-C power adapter by the end of 2024?
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The Framework Laptop 16 supports USB-C power adapters up to 240W. Moreover, depending on one's customizations, it potentially requires a USB-C power adapter of at least 180W. Currently, USB-C power adapters of that wattage are very rare on the market; the only 180W one I'm currently aware of is the one sold by Framework themselves, and I'm not aware of any 240W one at all. So, in that context: do we expect a 240W USB-C power adapter to enter the market before the end of 2024?

Market will resolve Yes if such an adapter is available for sale—not merely pre-order—which appears to the best of my judgement to be real / reputable and not simply a fake listing on an in-fact-weaker adapter. Given the subjectivity of that realness-assessment, I won't be participating in this market. Adapters which offer a sum across multiple ports of 240W but which don't offer 240W through a single port, such as this one, aren't sufficient to produce a Yes resolution.

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Can you clarify the resolution criteria here? Is this:

  • "Power adapter that delivers 240W over a single USB type-C port", or

  • "Power adapter that delivers 240W over a single USB type-C port using standards-compliant USB power delivery"?

The former exists today, the latter AFAICT does not.

@josh Standards-compliant USB power delivery. (I am, separately, curious about the non-standards-compliant options that currently exist, which I failed to encounter in my searches prior to making this market; but I won't resolve Yes for them.)

@Tulip Non-standards-compliant options include https://www.theverge.com/2023/2/28/23617143/realme-gt-3-price-release-date-specs-features-240w-supervooc-fast-charging . That article also links to a 300W proof-of-concept, but I don't know if that's shipped yet.

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