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USB C maxes out at 240 Watts. Is that enough? A modern laptop GPU can use up to 175 Watts on its own...
Edit: I looked it up and apparently laptops are allowed to have other charging ports and to rely on those for operating at full capacity. As long as they can charge at all from USB C, they're compliant, even if they run in a reduced-capability low-power mode unless you plug them in via their other charging port.
hp have a couple of really beefy workstation laptops that come with power brick/docking station combo units, and they do this. the connector from the dock is a barrel plug and a usb-c in a single plastic housing, spaced like they are on the machine:
on the later models of the dock they are separate but held together with magnets, but gen 1 and 2 had that monstrosity on them.
That's mostly acceptable.
Though most laptops today do alright. We have a couple 2019 laptops with C charging and they're fine.
My concern is the C port wearing out (which I've seen) and having to replace the entire board. This law needs to specify the port be separate from the main board too.
I've had multiple work laptops from various manufacturers since 2020 with usbc ports and none of them have broken. And those have been attached to docks a few times every day by average.
Also, as I work in IT dept and we have thousands of laptops, havent heard anyone at work that their laptop has broken a port.
I'm not saying it wouldnt happen, but I think the likelyhood of usbc port breaking is pretty much the same as with barrel port breaking, honestly.