Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and this is the magsafe duo so let's go ahead and unbox it
get my unboxing knife here there's no pull tab like a lot of the other apple boxes
and let's go ahead and open it up
so here's the magsafe duo we'll unfold this i like these boxes since they don't have a lot of
packaging in them it's just easy to get them in and out we'll set that aside and this is
the magsafe duo now this comes in at 129 but it doesn't come with a charger so it's 129.
here's the box and then it shows you that it folds up and you need a 20 watt adapter minimum
so let's go ahead and open this up so we'll take the wrapper off
let's open the box here
and inside we have the charger here so we've got magsafe on one side the watch charger on
the other we'll take a closer look at that in a moment we've got a little bit of paperwork here
so safety and handling regulatory compliance and warranty summary put these away and then
we have a cable so we get a usbc to lightning cable which is a little bit strange i thought
it'd be usbc to usbc but it's usbc to lightning so let's go ahead and unwrap this
we'll put the box aside and let's take a closer look at the charger now this has a
little bit of a wrapper on it let me take this off
and this is the magsafe duo so it closes like this it will stay held shut i think this has
a little bit of a wrapper on it as well this side folds up
take the wrapper off this side folds up so that you can charge your apple watch either laying flat
or standing up you've got your magsafe on one side and then a lightning cable lightning port which
is really surprising to me i forgot about this i thought it'd be usbc and then it closes like
this it has an apple logo on one side and just the metal piece on the other now the material of
this charger feels like apple silicone maybe like a silicone case but a little bit less grippy it
has a smoother texture to it it's not stitched or anything on the outside it's sort of just
molded plastic it looks like or sort of a rubbery feel you see i can push it over like this so
it's kind of a rubberized feel it seems like it'll grip fine on a table but it does slide a little
bit it's not as grippy as say the silicone apple cases now let's take a look at the magnets inside
so we've got it looks like a lot more magnets than i thought so it looks like you've got four
magnets plus the mag safe and then a magnet off to the side and then on the other side you have
the same sort of thing a magnet in the center of the apple watch charger a magnet on the side and
four magnets to go along with it to hold it shut on the other side you can see the same magnets
so that's a little bit of a surprise i didn't expect that let's go ahead and open it up
and if we place the watch on it now only one side will charge the watch the watch
has a different sort of compatibility as far as charging it's not qi compatible
so you fold this up and if you have a band like this loop here you just set it into place like
that and then again if you don't have the loop on i guess you could set it down face down if
you have a different sort of watch band so maybe you're using a watch band that loops back and then
plugs into itself you can use that as well so let me go ahead and plug this in now we'll plug
in one side and this is where it gets a little bit interesting so just like your regular magsafe
you want to use a 20 watt or higher charger to get the most out of this however if you use apple's 20
watt charger which is sold separately this 20 watt charger this will charge up to 11 watts with the
magsafe now that's faster than regular qi wireless chargers 7.5 watts is pretty typical for iphones
but it will charge up to 11 watts because you're splitting power between both of them however if
you use 27 watt or higher usb c adapters and again sold separately such as that that comes with the
macbook air this is the 30 watt adapter apple says 27 water higher which they don't sell at 27 watt
but this is a 49 adapter it will charge up to 14 watts with the magsafe connector so let's
go ahead and try a couple of them so we'll plug this in and again plug it into the other side
and if we put the apple watch here to charge it should start charging and you'll see it's charging
now if i place my iphone on the other side it should charge the iphone and it is so it's
charging both and it's only charging at 11 watts with the adapter so again if i put this on here
you've got the sort of animation with the charging now if you want to charge a little bit faster
again you can use that macbook air plug you can use any above this as well you can use all the way
up to the 96 or 97 watt one with the macbook pro plug this in and again it should start charging in
just a moment so we'll detach them put them back on and again they're both charging so you get the
little animation like you expect here we'll give it a moment to realize it's not charging
plug it back on and you've got the animation that the watch is charging
now if you plug this into say the 18 watt adapter let's see if it still charges
now the problem is we won't be able to measure how fast it's going to charge unless actually
timing it so again let's unplug these for now plug it in and let's see if it charges
so with the 18 watt adapter it looks like it will charge but we don't know how fast it's going to
charge now we can measure how fast it's going to charge or at least how much wattage is going
across i do have a meter to measure that so i thought we'd try that real quick now before we
get started i have a couple different adapters i thought we'd try so we have the 20 watt we know
what this will charge at according to apple this is the 18 watt though and it's not even mentioned
so if you have an 18 watt from say an 11 pro or an 11 pro max when you bought that phone
this may or may not work at a faster speed we'll try that out
and then of course we already know that the 30 watt adapter will work but there's third-party
aftermarket adapters that we want to know as well so i have two here i have the anker powerport atom
pd1 we know that this didn't work at 15 watts with the magsafe adapter i did that in a separate test
and then also i have the newer power port 3 nano from anker and we know that this works at 20 watts
or 15 watts with the magsafe adapter so this is compatible so i thought we'd try these out and
see if it makes a difference and also another thing to know is my phone is cool it needs to
be cooled down and also below 80 charge i did let it drain a little bit so we could test this
out and see what it's like so those things are factors that you need to get the fastest speeds
so let's start with the 18 watt again the 18 watt is on my right here we'll plug it in then
i'll take a short the shortest i could find usbc to usbc plug it in we'll plug it into the top of
the meter and then we'll plug in the cable from the magsafe duo so we'll plug it in like this
it's plugged in sometimes you need to flip it over for it to turn on
there we go we'll wait for it to turn on and then we'll put the phone on it and we can see sort of
what the charging is there it's centered it's locked into place and it should start to ramp
up the power so we'll give it a minute so with the 18 watt adapter we're almost getting to 11 watts
of power so we're bouncing right around 10.6 10.7 watts you can see down here in the bottom right
if i put on the apple watch it may slow down let's see so i'll take the apple watch off
place it on the charger and let's see what we've got now that that's charging so now we're at
11 watts or so 11 to 12 watts and usually the the watch only charges at about a watt and a half
or so when it's fairly close to fully charged so that's about right so we're getting very close to
that 11 watt number with this charger using the 18 watt adapter next let's test the power port atom
pd1 this is a 30 watt charger and let's go ahead and plug it in now we may not get the fullest
speeds based on the charge state of the phones but let's go ahead and put this on the charger
and see what we get so we're up to 73 percent on the iphone 12 pro max it's nice and cool
let's see what this charger will do if it will ramp up to at least 10 or 11 watts so
we're at just about 10 watts 11 watts or so it jumps between 9 and 10 and a half or so so
we're getting about the same with the power port atom pd1 and then if we put the watch on it you'll
see that the actual wattage will change it just jumped up to 12 or so when the charging the watch
because it's only using about a watt and a half depending on what it's charging at now let's go
ahead and try the power port 3 nano so again we'll unplug it place the nano on the charger
unplug everything plug the nano in we'll let the meter boot up and again we'll put the phone on
we'll give it a moment to charge here there we go it's charging and we'll let the meter ramp up
and let the voltage or current ramp up so now the anker nano 3 is at 13 watts or so so we're going
up between 12 to 13 watts almost a little bit more than that and then if i put the watch on
it to charge at the same time it should bump up you saw it hit 15 there so it looks like we're
going to get good speeds out of pretty much anything here out of the the actual adapters
the one i would use is probably the powerpoint 3 nano from anker or the 20 watt from apple that's
probably what i'd go with you probably have one already if you've bought one for your iphone
or of course if you have a macbook charger laying around you could use this you won't
get faster than 14 watts even if you go up to one of the fastest chargers and you really need
to be in a cool environment around 50 percent or lower to get the fastest speeds and then it will
continue around 11 watts from what i'm seeing so anything that's compatible seems to be working
again i wouldn't necessarily go with the older powerport pd1 it doesn't seem to be an advantage
here but it does seem to charge fine with any of the other adapters now you can charge your air
pods pro or air pods if you have the wireless charging case and any qi compatible wireless
charging device so if you put the 11 pro max on here for example you'll see that it's charging so
we're at 85 percent and it's charging you cannot charge the on the watch side and you can't charge
a watch on the magsafe side so you can charge anything else though now another thing is if
you have a magsafe phone attached to it and you lift it up it will bring the charger with it so
it doesn't hold itself down it's not heavy enough to do that you will have to physically detach it
that's not true with the watch though if you have the watch on it we'll just plug the watch in here
quickly take the watch off and it will come right away so just keep that in mind it does
sort of pull the side of this up a little bit but it seems to be basically a travel charger
that you could put on your nightstand throw in a backpack or just bring with you wherever and fold
it up when you're done and throw it in a backpack or a bag it's nice and compact so that part's nice
and hopefully we see more accessories like this from apple with magsafe but let me know if you're
going to pick one of these up or if you've already ordered one in the comments below and of course
if you'd like to get your hands on the wallpaper i have in this video i'll link it in the description
like i normally do if you'd like to get your hands on the different chargers and things
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