Carrying multiple chargers for your phone, laptop and tablet turns any bag into a tangled mess of cables and bulky adapters. The good news is that Anker’s Prime 67W charger just dropped to $37 on Amazon, slicing $12 off its $49 list price to hit an all-time low right before Christmas. This three-port GaN charger replaces at least two or three separate adapters you’re probably lugging around right now, saving both money and precious bag space. Compared to buying three individual chargers that would easily cost $60 to $80 combined, this deal makes financial sense even before you factor in the convenience upgrade.
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Why the size of charging bricks really does matter
GaN technology makes this charger 51% smaller than Apple’s original 67W MacBook adapter which means it fits in your pocket or bag without making a bulge. Silicon-based chargers make more heat and need bigger parts to safely handle high wattage. Gallium nitride, on the other hand, runs cooler and more efficiently in a smaller space. When you pack for a trip or commute, you’ll notice right away that this small brick takes up about the same amount of space as older 30W chargers, but it provides more than twice as much power. The foldable prongs make it even easier to carry around because they don’t get caught on things like fixed-prong adapters do.
You can charge three devices at once from one wall outlet with the two USB-C ports and one USB-A port: This changes how you manage your devices in coffee shops, airports, and hotel rooms. You can charge your phone and connect your older wireless earbud case to your MacBook Pro through USB-C. All of these devices get power from a single small adapter. The charger gives out the full 67W when you connect just one device and it is enough to charge a 14-inch MacBook Pro from dead to 50% in about 30 minutes.
When you use both USB-C ports together or one USB-C port with the USB-A port, the dual-port charging can only give you 65W of power. This is still enough power for most real-world situations. You can charge a laptop at 45W and a phone at 20W at the same time, or you can split the power more evenly between the devices you’ve plugged in. The charger automatically negotiates power delivery based on what each device needs, so you don’t have to worry about which port does what or damaging your devices with the wrong voltages.
Anker’s ActiveShield 2.0 checks the temperature more than 3 million times a day and changes the power output to keep your devices from overheating or having electrical problems that could damage them. This protection system runs all the time in the background, checking voltage, current, and temperature thousands of times per second to find problems before they happen. You won’t even know it’s working, which is the point, because good safety features work without the user having to do anything.
Anker backs the Prime 67W with a 24-month warranty that covers defects and failures which means that if something goes wrong, you can actually get your money back instead of just paying for it. That warranty period is longer than what most of their competitors offer, which shows that the company thinks these chargers will last instead of being thrown away.
This is the math that counts: A three-port 67W charger for $37 is a lot better than buying separate adapters, and it makes your charging setup more organized by putting everything in one piece of hardware. A single-port 65W charger usually costs $30 to $40 on its own, and adding two more chargers for other devices would make the total cost well over $60. That $12 discount may not seem like much, but when you think about how much money you’ll save by not having to buy multiple chargers, this deal is a smart way to spend your money instead of an impulse buy.
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