Griffin PowerBlock Charges Your iPad Faster

Posted by jailbreaknews on May 11, 2010 in Accessories, Apple, iPad, Reviews | 2 comments

There’s a lot of ways to recharge an iPad—thank you, USB—but the iPad is finicky. For a portable, it has high power requirements, high enough to cause problems for some people. (It even has its own support document.)

Apple iPad’s battery life is nothing short of amazing. But, the time it takes to charge it seems to be another story.

You can charge your iPad with the standard 10W iPad Apple charger or hook it up to your MacBook Pro or use a 3rd party power charger. But, which battery charging is going to make your Apple iPad the happiest?

Gizmodo has taken this upon themselves to compare the battery chargin time with Apple standard iPad charger, Griffin PowerBlock, standard iPhone charger and MacBook Pro’s USB charger.

The results are interesting for the time it takes to get upto 80% charge.  The reason for it is the first 80% is a quick charge and the last 20% goes very slowly to preserve battery life. Hence the 80% baseline.

While the standard iPad charger fared well in the test compared to others, Griffin’s PowerBlock (the newer iPad friendly 2.1 amps) seems to perform better than the standard iPad charger.

So, if you are looking for a spare charger PowerBlock could be a better option.

While charging with MacBook Pro’s USB or standard iPhone charger will do the job overnight, the straight power options win it for being quick.

Verdict

Fastest: Griffin PowerBlock (new)

Slowest: MacBook Pro USB

[via Gizmodo]

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