@Insider is 100% correct. For a general purpose with laptop situations you should not buy this. You will need to solve two problems in total:
- Carrying enough stored external energy to keep you going the reasonable worst-case scenario. When I’m with my travel laptop, my total needs are around 13-15Ah, so about triple the 5000 Fusion. Typically for port count and diversity, I carry 10000 and a smaller item like Mini+
- many port charger to recharge everything. You can just about get by with a dual-porter but a 3 or 4 port is more common. So say a 60W single port charger + a dual charger.
- There is a trade-off between either carrying an over-sized Powercore or a 2nd Powerport. As you either have a part-discharged Powercore and a fully charged device, and recharge the Powercore while you run down your devices then recharge devices, or you have a nearly empty Powercore and then you need to recharge everything in parallel.
Hybrid makes most sense for two common scenarios:
- less-geeky people who struggle to concentrate on remembering details like having to recharge items. A fusion is a good gift to such people.
- Also makes sense just in the context of a lower end phone model user, where 5000 is all they need and it’s a simple singular total solution with their cable.
Around the 5000mAh order of size, that’s similar to a phone full recharge, which is comparable to a heavy day’s phone usage. So for a phone user, not with a tablet, carrying a 5000mAh Fusion as the single thing you need to own, makes perfect sense. As phones step up from their typical 10W input to more of 18W input, I can see as the phone power input needs increase, this type of user would benefit from a PD 5000. Phones are still around that 3400mAh size so 5000 is a full recharge, to get to end of a heavy phone use day.
However, I don’t carry one, because carrying 10000mAh is even more useful, I can go longer without needing a wall socket, it’s double the power, so you’re talking a busy day and an overnight of power. The Fusion 5000 is about the same size as a Powercore 10000. That covers me for the atypical day and allows for rarer emergency situations. When I do get to a wall socket, I’d recharge my 10000mAh alongside my phone, so a dual socket. But then I remember to do things, like recharge.
My current setup is:
- leaving house with intention to get back to house - carry 10000 PD Slim
- leaving house with intention to stay overnight - carry 10000 PD Slim and a dual charger.
I thus can handle double the amount of problem of a Fusion 10000, I can both last twice as long between wall sockets, and when I do connect I recharge the whole lot in parallel, not sequential like the Fusion, ready for the next day. Typically my 10000mah is only half used, but then it’s still able to handle the atypical.
I also think Anker needs to make the Fusion with the plug of a clip-on UK or EU plug, then its a universal travel solution. Anker knows how to do this. Example from the Nebula Max charger
Currently with the lockdown , I not left house for an overnight trip for 5 weeks, but then there’s still the chance of an Ambulance and a hospital ward and I betya the wall socket is not conveniently placed, I’d not want a cable attaching my $500 laptop past all the nursing staff to the wall, so I’d be for example with a 20000 PD Essential which I keep connected to my laptop and plug into the wall once a day or so.
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