The European Union has officially imposed a new rule for selling laptops with a power rating of 100 W or less, requiring them to use a USB-C port for charging. This rule takes effect today, April 28, Tuesday, as the European Commission has been exploring ways to reduce electronic waste and has been ...
I’m a bit torn. EU is really going hard on these regulations. It’s very convenient to have a single type of port that just works with all devices, sure, but legislating this for laptops may be overkill. There may be good reasons for other types of charging ports on laptops. Granted I’m not very knowledgeable about this particular topic so I’m not sure what the costs and benefits to different charging ports are, but somehow I also doubt that a lot of these regulators are.
I believe laptops can still charge with whatever port they want, but they have to support USB-C aswell