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Finally, a power bank that quickly charges my MacBook Pro (and is safe for flights)

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EcoFlow Rapid Pro ZDNET's key takeaways A premium-quality power bank designed and built for modern workloads

Three USB-C ports and a retractable USB-C cable with a maximum of 300W power output

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Power banks come in all sorts of shapes and sizes, from tiny ones that attach to the back of your smartphone to huge ones that are too big to fit into a pocket. For heavy-duty workloads, power banks don't get much bigger than this EcoFlow Rapid Pro unit -- a power bank designed and built for modern-day charging scenarios.

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EcoFlow is a big hitter in the power station market, and it's now making inroads into smaller consumer items like power banks -- after all, power banks are just small power stations!

Built like a Coke bottle

With a 27,650mAh/99.54Wh capacity, the Rapid Pro is about as big as power banks can get -- and there's a reason for that, because beyond the 100Wh point they aren't allowed on commercial airliners without a load of regulatory hassles.

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