Microsoft’s new Surface devices ditch magnetic charging port for USB-C

The Surface Connect larboard connected a Surface Laptop 7.

Microsoft has conscionable announced 2 caller Surface devices, and neither comes with the company’s Surface Connect charging port. The Surface Pro 12-inch and Surface Laptop 13-inch tin present lone beryllium charged done USB-C ports connected the devices, aft years of Microsoft equipping its Surface laptops and tablets with the company’s proprietary magnetic charging port.

While this isn’t the archetypal clip Microsoft has ditched the Surface Connect larboard connected a caller device, it does consciousness similar the institution is present yet blessed with charging implicit USB-C. This each but confirms that the adjacent iterations of the larger Surface Pro and Surface Laptop models volition besides vessel without the magnetic charging port.

The Surface 3 shipped with conscionable Micro USB charging, but the institution has ever included the Surface Connect connected its Surface Pro enactment of devices. The compatibility has meant you tin usage an existing Surface charger crossed a wide assortment of Microsoft’s hardware dating backmost galore generations.

Microsoft besides no longer ships a charger successful the container for its latest Surface devices, successful compliance with EU initiatives to trim e-waste. The power to conscionable USB-C charging connected Surface devices comes astir 8 years aft Microsoft was primitively nether unit to adhd USB-C ports to its hardware. At the time, Microsoft created a USB-C dongle alternatively with erstwhile Surface main Panos Panay joking that it was for “people who emotion dongles.”

You tin work much astir the caller Surface Pro 12-inch here and the Surface Laptop 13-inch here.