It was 11:42 PM, and Leo’s Windows 11 laptop was gasping its last digital breath.

“You’ve got to be kidding me,” he muttered, jiggling the connector.

“This is stupid,” he said. “A charger is a charger.”

Leo exhaled. The screen returned to full brightness. The fans roared properly, confidently. His model finished training at .

Then, at , the laptop did something unexpected.

Fifteen watts. That was phone charger territory. His laptop was a hungry beast with an RTX graphics card and a 12th-gen Intel chip. Fifteen watts was like trying to fill a swimming pool with an eyedropper.

“Okay, Microsoft,” he said to the empty room. “You win this round.”

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