The Rolling Square Supertiny is the perfect ‘just in case’ charger

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Apple Silicon Macs offer truly excellent battery life compared to their Intel predecessors, but there are still times when you need to plug in to power.

If I know in advance I’m going to need mains power, then the Chargeasap Zeus is the power brick I normally carry with me. When I expect to be able to work solely on battery but have the MacBook equivalent of range anxiety, I’ve found the Rolling Square Super Tiny to be the perfect solution …

My M1 Max 16-inch MacBook Pro is heading toward its fifth birthday, and the battery capacity is currently shown as 81%. In general use I’ll typically still get about 10 hours out of it, but for intensive tasks like 4K video editing that can drop to as little as 5-6 hours.

As someone who works from a home office, it’s good to get a change of scenery once in a while. So for things like video editing in my spare time, I’ll often head out to a shared workspace or coffee shop. My favourite borrowed office is one of the British Library reading rooms, which are almost the quietest place you will ever find in London!

I’m reasonably confident when doing this that I’ll be able to work just fine at my desired screen brightness without running out of battery power. However, I really hate to stop work when I’m in the zone, and there is just that little background niggle that perhaps my enthusiasm will last longer than my MacBook Pro’s battery.

I don’t want to have to carry a heavy charging brick just in case, but the Rolling Square Supertiny is so small and light that I can just routinely carry it in my laptop, backpack and have the reassurance of knowing it’s there if needed.

The diminutive GaN power brick delivers 65W of power but measures only 1.7×1.37×1.3-inches (US version) and weighs just 2.5 ounces. (The British plug means that the UK version is a little larger and heavier but still goes completely unnoticed in a side pocket of my backpack.) That plus a USB-C cable…

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