[OJFord]

> >into the correct usb port to charge the laptop

> The port is either marked (everything but MacBooks) or doesn't matter (MacBooks, pretty sweet).

From https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/363337/how-to-find...:

> TLDR; If your MacBook Pro runs hot or shows a high % CPU for the kernel task, try charging on the right and not on the left.

[unethical_ban]

While that is a frustrating bug/design flaw, it doesn't negate the fact that you can charge the laptop from any port.

[OJFord]

Sure, I suppose my point is just further along the lines of 'even if all the ports are the same, they don't necessarily work the same' since it turns out that even if they seem to/say they do, there can still be such differences.

IMO if it's to be optional to implement the 'receive' side of USB-PD (or QC? Whatever it is) then it should use an extra pin, so a PD cable physically can't fit in a non-PD port. And the ends opposite, so that the PD-pin-having transformer plug won't fit a non-PD cable.

(I don't really want that though, I'd rather it was just required to support it. So it's all the same and we can properly live the one-connector dream.)

[thermin]

That's quite insane, thanks Tim Apple.