Apple M5 rumors

[Buntschwalbe]

But yeah as others have said, you don't need the MagSafe 3 cable for charging. It has benefits, being MagSafe for one so it's harder to step on the cable and knock the laptop on the floor. It also means you don't use up a USB port. But all the USB-C ports can be used for charging. In fact, the MagSafe 3 connector uses the same system as USB Power Delivery just without any of the data lanes for USB

I'm wondering, how does apple update the firmware of the magsafe cable without any (usb?) data lanes? is there a different data connection?

 

[casperes1996]

I'm wondering, how does apple update the firmware of the magsafe cable without any (usb?) data lanes? is there a different data connection?

I’m actually not sure in that one. It’s possible there’s something else there or maybe just a very small subset of usb database