There are tons of similar and cheaper options available from companies like Anker and Kanex — all you have to do is choose based on capacity, design, or price. But that’s the beauty of USB-C; it’s designed to be ubiquitous. Compact, practical, inexpensive batteries that charge your laptop quickly on the go are a new product category. Some pre-USB-C options like HyperMacs were heavy and astronomically priced. Now that I have a USB-C charger it's hard to imagine living without it.

USB-C was one of the big stories of Computex last year as Intel announced that its Thunderbolt 3 interface would switch from Mini DisplayPort to the new connector. This morning at a press event the company checked in on how things were going, citing more than 60 PC designs shipping with Thunderbolt 3 along with 20 available accessories, and 65 more on the way. Intel expects the number of Thunderbolt 3 PCs to double with the launch of its seventh-generation Core processors.

And on the show floor of Computex, it’s impossible to avoid the connector. At this point, a laptop without a USB-C port is simply incomplete — the connector is both better for docking at home and better for using on the go. As long as you make sure your cables don’t fry it, that is.