I swapped the four wall warts under my desk for this one UGREEN block and lived with it for about two weeks. The pile of chargers I used to trip over went down to a single brick roughly the size of a golf ball. That alone sold me before I’d measured a single watt.

The headline number is 100 watts and it holds up, as long as you use the right port. UGREEN puts the full 100W on the top two USB-C ports (it labels them C1 and C2 in the manual, though good luck telling them apart on the case). I ran my 14-inch MacBook Pro off C1 with nothing else plugged in and it climbed from 8 percent to just past half in under half an hour. That matches UGREEN’s own claim of 51 percent in 27 minutes, which almost never happens with these things. Fast enough that I quit hauling Apple’s charger to the couch.

Here’s the part the spec sheet skates over. The second you plug in another device, that 100W gets split. Laptop on C1, phone somewhere else, and the top port settles to around 65W. Still plenty for a MacBook Air or most ultrabooks. But if you’re trying to fast charge two big laptops at once, neither gets the full pour. For my normal day, one laptop plus a phone plus earbuds, I never felt it. People charging two 16-inch machines side by side should look at something with a bigger total budget.

It gets warm, not hot. Under a full 100W pull the case was warm after twenty minutes, about like a phone after a long call. Never uncomfortable, and nowhere near the heat my old 87W brick used to throw. That’s the GaN earning its keep.

The folding prongs turned out to matter more than I figured. I tossed it in a backpack pocket for a weekend trip and it didnt snag cables or jab my laptop on the way in. With four ports it replaced the three separate chargers I’d normally pack. One brick, a handful of cables, done. If you want the full rundown on what actually matters in a charger, our portable charger buyer’s guide breaks it down.

Now the catch, and it’s a real one. Every port is USB-C. No USB-A anywhere on the thing. If you’ve still got an old cable for a Kindle, a controller, or some gadget that only shipped with USB-A, this charger wont take it without an adapter. I had to dig out a USB-C to USB-A cable for one accessory and it bugged me for a minute. For a 2026 desk it’s the right call, but know it going in.

Two smaller gripes. There’s no little screen showing wattage, the kind the pricier Anker Prime chargers have now, though at $47 I wasn’t expecting one. And the ports arent marked on the case, so you just have to remember the two top ones are the 100W ports. I stuck a dot of tape on C1 so I’d stop guessing. If 65 watts and three ports covers you, the cheaper and even smaller Anker 735 (Nano II 65W) is one I’ve used too. The Nexode is the pick when you want that fourth port and the headroom to charge a bigger laptop at full speed.