Microsoft also no longer ships a charger in the box for its latest Surface devices, in compliance with EU initiatives to reduce e-waste. The switch to just USB-C charging on Surface devices comes ...

Otherwise, if you are using a USB Type C charger only, make sure that it is at least USB 2.0 or USB 3.0 compliant and provides 5 volts, 1.5 amps, or 7.5 watts of power rating.

Microsoft has quietly replaced the Surface Connect port in its latest 13-inch Surface Laptop and 12-inch Surface Pro with a USB-C connector, taking away some of what made Surface devices special.

Charging your laptop with a USB-C connection is convenient and easy. Here's everything you need to know to charge your laptop over USB-C.

But that isn't even the bad part: Microsoft also decided to go with slower USB-C 3.2 ports with a maximum speed of 10Gbps, compared with the 40Gbps Thunderbolt-C port on the latest MacBook Air M4 ...

But that isn't even the bad part: Microsoft also decided to go with slower USB-C 3.2 ports with a maximum speed of 10Gbps, compared with the 40Gbps Thunderbolt-C port on the latest MacBook Air M4 ...