Pack light. It’s the rule, at least the one we pretend to follow while dragging our luggage across airports. We have devices now. Lots of them. Laptops, phones, earbuds, the tablet you bought once and forgot about. Each wants juice. Each brings its own brick. The tangle is real. And bulky.
The solution? Stop carrying a tower of plastic and stop buying bricks the size of your lunch box. Grab this instead.
A better way to power up
As of July 8 Amazon is cutting a massive $50 chunk off the price of the Anker Prime 160W Gallium Nitride Charger.
It goes from the standard $149.99 down to $99.99.
That’s a 33% drop. More importantly it is the lowest price we’ve ever tracked for this unit at Amazon. If you wait any longer the price creeps back up. If you buy now you get the deal of the season.
So why bother with Anker’s new heavy hitter? It does one thing exceptionally well: consolidation.
Three ports kill three chargers dead.
It’s simple arithmetic for the backpack. The Prime features three USB-C ports. When everything is plugged in you get 100W on the main port while the other two share the rest, capping at 30W each. Use just one cable and the pump kicks into high gear at 140W.
It’s enough to juice up a gaming laptop. A MacBook. And still leave power for the iPhone or Airpods case sitting in your bag. All via a single cable management scheme. One brick replaces three. Maybe four.
Does it actually fit in your pocket?
You’d expect a charger capable of outputting near-laptop levels of power to be dense. Anker managed to shrink the footprint surprisingly far.
They claim it is about the size of the AirPods Pro 3 case. We believe it.
The measurements aren’t tiny exactly. But compared to a laptop power brick? It is a feather. It weighs about 220 grams. Roughly half a pound. You will feel it. You just won’t mind as much.
There’s even a small display on the unit. It tells you how much power you are pushing out. It’s not critical tech. It is kind of cool to see the numbers change as you plug in another device.
Should you buy it?
You are heading on a summer trip soon. Or you have already. Your bag feels heavy.
Consider leaving the other bricks at home. This charger covers almost everything in one shot. You save $50. You gain counter space in your hotel room.
It is the lowest price we have ever seen.
That makes timing pretty binary. Either you want it at its best price today. Or you wait and hope you don’t need it when it’s back at $150.
The sale isn’t ending with a whimper. It might just end.
