The Lenmar ChugPlug breathes extra life into your MacBook

By Mike Epstein April 3, 2014

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Carrying around an external battery pack for your laptop can be incredibly helpful if you’re a frequent traveler. This is especially true considering that, depending on where you are, you may go through extended periods without coming across a vacant electrical outlet. Lenmar offers a helping hand in this department with its ChugPlug, a portable power pack for the Macbook Air and 13-inch Macbook Pro.

The ChugPlug plugs into your MacBook’s power adapter, and adds a maximum of four hours of battery life to the 11-inch MacBook Air, and as much as three hours to the 13-inch MacBook Air and 13-inch MacBook Pro. However, the ChugPlug is a little on the chunky side, weighing 1.1 pounds. That’s about half of what the current-gen 11-inch MacBook Air weighs (2.38 pounds).

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It’s worth noting that the ChugPlug doesn’t offer as much juice as some other external batteries. For instance, Gbatteries’ BatteryBox claims that it can add a full charge to a 13-inch MacBook Air.

The ChugPlug will begin shipping during the week of April 14, and will run you $159.99. Lenmar is currently taking pre-orders on their website. If we get our mitts around a ChugPlug and a BatteryBox, we’d love to see how these two stack up against one another in real world action.

What do you think? Sound off in the comments below.

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