We’ve covered a bunch of these in the past: Griffin’s BreakSafe cable, which was one of the first to reach the market the MagNeo, which was the first to offer charging and data the AnyWatt dongle, a Kickstarter campaign that promises to let you use your old MagSafe chargers with your new MacBook and even Apple is rumored to be working on a solution of some kind.īut it seems that the marketplace isn’t quite saturated enough yet, which is why we have two new entrants in the “USB-C MagSafe adapter” field making the rounds this week.įirst up is the MagC, another Kickstarter project that claims to offer “the best of three worlds” in combining USB-C and MagSafe. In the time since the 12-inch MacBook launched in 2015 - and particularly in the wake of the more recent USB-C MacBook Pros from last year - there have been no shortage of enterprising companies looking to fill the magnetic charging void that Apple has left on its laptop. And the jury is still out as to whether or not that was the right move. In the past, Apple has made no secret of its efforts to enforce its MagSafe patents, so it was a little surprising to see them switch to USB-C.
One of the subtler design changes in Apple’s recent MacBook and MacBook Pro models was the replacement of Apple’s magnetically detaching MagSafe charger with standard USB-C ports for charging the laptops.