The market for laptop and smartphone chargers can be a minefield. Native devices from the big tech manufacturers lean hard into the overpriced department, and the huge array of no-name third-party chargers is a crapshoot at best, ranging from ineffective to potentially dangerous. Anker’s one of our favorite safe sources for fast-charging power, and one of their best multi-port devices is 25% off right now at Amazon.
The Anker Prime Charging Station is a 200W fast charger that can power up your smartphone, smartwatch, and tablet while it juices up your laptop. With four USB-C and two USB-A ports, there’s room for all of your devices to share, and its compact design is perfect for a desktop, countertop, or anywhere you want to set up a charging hub. It’s just $60 while this limited-time deal is active.
Clutter Buster
Having two laptops isn’t all that uncommon, but when you throw in your smartphone, tablet, earbuds, and everything else that’s needing a charge, your desk is going to get very cluttered very quickly. The Anker Prime charging station wipes out the knot of extension cords and dongles while taking up precious little desk space. When you’re using two USB-C ports simultaneously, each can supply up to 100W, which means two high-demand laptops can fast charge at the same time without either one getting throttled to a trickle. Anker’s example is two 14-inch MacBook Pros reaching 50% charge in 28 minutes — a benchmark that reflects the real-world utility of having two full-speed laptop ports available at once rather than one fast port and several slower ones.
The Anker Prime is a gallium nitride (GaN) device, which means it can deliver those 200W of juice without taking up the footprint of a traditional wall adapter bank. GaN chargers run more efficiently and generate less heat than silicon-based chargers at equivalent power levels, which is relevant both for device safety and for the charger’s own longevity under sustained load. Anker’s proprietary safety system continuously monitors temperature across all ports and adjusts output to protect connected devices — useful when you’re charging six things at once and want confidence that nothing is going to have a meltdown.
Charge ’em All
The compatible device list covers virtually everything you might have: iPhone 14 through 16 series, MacBook Air and Pro, iPad Pro, Galaxy S21 through S24, Google Pixel 8, Dell XPS, HP Spectre, Microsoft Surface, and more. In practice, anything that charges via USB-C will work with the Prime, and the power delivery specs are high enough to handle the most demanding devices on the market rather than just phones and earbuds.
At just $60, the Anker Prime Charging Station is one of the better values in desktop multi-device charging. If you’re running out of outlets, reaching for multiple adapters throughout the day, or simply want everything charged and ready from a single location, this does the job efficiently and at a price that doesn’t require a second thought.