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Updated the Apple Charging Guide with March hardware roll-out: https://randsinrepose.com/guides/apple-charging-guide.html

- Added iPhone 17e, MacBook Neo, and all the March 2026 hardware
- MacBook Air now ships with 40W (up from 30-35W) -- better, still not fast
- MacBook Neo ships with 20W on a 30W device -- new worst gap
- macOS Tahoe 26.4 adds an orange "Slow Charger" warning -- Apple finally admits it

The Apple Charging Situation — Built by Grumbles

Mar 26 at 6:57pmWeb
Show threadandrewsleigh1d ago
@rands I enjoyed this and found it useful. It says ‘built by grumbles’. I can guess what that involves roughly, but have you documented this system anywhere? I suspect I might be able to use something similar…
Show threadrands1d ago

@andrewsleigh I did a bunch of charging research and could’ve been a blog post, but it was a lot of data, notes, and tables, so I first designed a clean “guide” style that I liked. Good typography. Bite-sized information bits. Color inspired by Rands.

Took the raw notes and had Grumbles™ apply the data to the format. I also gave Grumbles a little voice to make him less scary.