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Why YSK: I assumed all usb-c cables were created equal. Turns out most cheap ones cap out at 3A which means roughly 60W max. To deliver higher power you need a 5A rated cable, which usually has an embedded chip in it that tells the device it's capable of higher current.

Spent a year wondering why my laptop charged slowly off various chargers and the answer was always the cable. Threw out my entire bag of random cables and replaced them with 3 good 5A cables. My laptop charges in about half the time now.

Sharing because I genuinely had no idea this was a thing and figured other people might be in the same boat.