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

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
• Expensive at $220, but right now there's $50 off!

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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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The Rapid Pro is a power bank built to have presence. Weighing in at 1.5 pounds (700 g) and built like a Coke bottle, this is a power bank best carried in a bag rather than a pocket (unless you're always rocking cargo pants!). But that size not only makes room for the huge battery capacity but also ports -- a lot of ports!

Good selection of ports

On the top of the unit are three USB-C ports -- one capable of 140W (input and output) and the other two of 65W max (these are output-only ports). On their own, this would be a good selection of ports, but there's more. On the bottom of the unit is a built-in 60 cm USB-C cable that can also handle 140W of input or output.

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The three ports and the built-in cable can all be used simultaneously, allowing for a maximum output of 300W.

These pogo pin pads allow the power bank to be charged at 320W, but finding a desktop charger is tricky.

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If 140W charging is not enough for you, the Rapid Pro is compatible with a 320W desktop charging station that EcoFlow makes, which utilizes the pogo pin pad on the bottom of the power bank -- but finding that as a separate unit to buy is a bit tricky.

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There's a large color display on the Rapid Pro used to keep the user in the loop about what the power bank is doing, and on the side are three buttons for navigating the on-screen menu.

The display is neat, and there are options to turn on the clock in the smartphone app.

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There's also an app for remotely controlling the power bank and showing its activity. This allows access to "hidden" features such as turning the clock on and changing the artwork that appears on the screen.

ZDNET's buying advice

The number of people who need power banks with USB-A ports -- especially a power bank with a price tag like the EcoFlow Rapid Pro -- is small, so it's refreshing to see a four-port unit that just makes use of USB-C. And the fact that this has three ports and a built-in cable makes it completely up to date and ready to charge anything, from laptops to earbuds.

As I'd expect from EcoFlow, the Rapid Pro does everything that it says it will do on the tin. The power capacity and output are phenomenal, the recharge speeds are blazing fast, and the built-in cable is a really nice touch.

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Do I have any complaints? The only thing that mildly annoys me about the Rapid Pro is that the black finish is a total fingerprint magnet. Yeah, I'm truly nitpicking here.

It's a great power bank, and it needs to be. With a regular price of $220, it's certainly at the premium end of the spectrum, but if you act fast there's a $50 discount, bringing it down to a much more reasonable $170. At this price, anyone looking for a high-end, high-capacity power bank should be hitting that buy button before the price goes up!

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