You can’t go wrong with Anker 
Choosing Your Power Delivery Charger
Huh? Yes you can, their product line is so big, confusing product names, overlapping, newer and 2 year old all sold at the same time, you absolutely can go wrong with Anker, buying the wrong product for your needs. The products are not bad, the product line and the way it is stocked is far from ideal.
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Yea good point. I usually do a bit of a research so I kinda know which charger to get, however not everyone is like that. But I do get your point
That plays right to my point though, any number of issues is broad, I only threw out 2 that are common (though your answer about markets and capita is a more in depth answer to my second example). While not exactly a good answer, the most direct and simple one is because they just did.
I think he means if you choose the right product then nothing out there is better, or that Anker is just in general a great company, but I agree that things like that need fixed
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The old,
old story.
Confusions: Too many product types,.
too many product names (some with +)
Yep, the Powerwhatsit II 2 Elite Pro Redux PD Speed+ Slim. The fastest possible charge if you either are lucky or research.
But if you do buy the wrong Powerwhatsit II 2 Elite Pro Reduce PD Speed+ Elite. Oh darn it I bought the Powerwhatsit II Elite PD+ Speed when I thought I was buying the Powerwhatsit II Elite+ PD Speed, then yes Anker will do a good job to make you happy.
If Anker would just keep total product diversity to a minimum and only sell the current ones and make Amazon match Anker’s website, it would be a lot less of a problem.
The verge, has just done a comparison with out atom and rav powers new gan charger.
What do you think?
I have to agree with them on the design front, both, while still new are not without their flaws. The Rav power has the right idea with it’s flat design and bottom plug port, but it’s still too big and bulky. The Anker plug is chunky and has no retractable prongs, not to mention it’s front forward port so you can’t use it up against or behind a couch without risking the cable and it’s lower wattage means it can’t power 90% of the laptops that are capable of USB-C charging.
Take both, make them have a baby and give us a Frankensteined mini atom with foldable prongs, bottom USB-C port and it’s no bigger than 2"wide x 3" long
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Same as what I got from it.
As Anker have told us, it’s not good for larger stuff, whereas the rav did do larger (but not mega stuff!)
I always thought the prongs spoilt the atom from selling in 10s of millions. Change that, and they’ll sell by the bucket load… Only the size of a second output bigger, and they’ll sell like they’re free! Lots of salesman/business travellers wants small convenience, and for stuff to do 2 things at once… A 2 port atom only slightly bigger with foldable prongs would be heaven for most.
It seriously grinds my gears when people do reviews like that and knock features that shouldnt be compared anyway. The individual uses the Anker on a 13 inch macbook pro when simple search says this is a pointless test. The pro is prepackaged with a 61w charger, so you try to run it with a 30w charger for comparison??? Kinda no wonder it doesnt work very well. Hilariously enough though, had that blogger read this post for choosing chargers they would see the error of their ways. 
On another note, 100 watts of power could help me make a new test fixture at work. The powerport speed 4 i used as a dc supply is holding up very well so far, but for another im designing ill need more juice.
The post was testing/reviewing GAN chargers, hence the comment regarding charging largers items. I’m sure if Anker had a larger gan charger they’d have.used it.
No i get that, but if you read the part about anker atom not perfect yet, the writer actually tried to use it for a macbook pro, it irks me when you try something knowing its wrong, thats all.
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The smaller an item is, the less important how small it is. The laptop the person is carrying dwarfs the charger so these low wattage charger being smaller is a distracting gimmick.
Not folding pins is a silly way to make smaller as its just going to scratch or gouge a hole into whatever it is next to.
What is required are the larger chargers to get smaller, and to merge chargers, so 60W, 100W, 2-3-4 port chargers, merging PD with IQ2. Then we’re talking materially real-world benefits to those who care about overall volume.
Not wanting to denegrate how 30W is getting smaller, just why is this product 1st then the really useful products are later?
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This is first because its new tech. From years of designing, when you break the mold of a product line, you build simple first and then expand it as you perfect it. The 30W single plug charger is simple (1 input, 1 output), effective (30W handles most standard products atm, laptops aside as thats still not standard yet), and sized properly to allow long term testing to ensure the technology is long term viable. Not to mention you have non folding plugs because they re asthetics. You want something to work great before you get fancy.
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Your last sentence I agree with. I disagree with does this product matches that statement
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It matches everything a first generation device should be. At 30W its effective (laptops and a handful of devices need more), its simple with regards to 1 in and 1 out, and with no moving componwnts you only judge it from its performance. Not sure what you feel this needs more for a first gen device tbh.