Will this (1HE08AA) charger work with my Spectre X360 (13-ae054tu)?

[opti_phoenix]

Will this charger (1HE08AA) work with my HP Spectre X360 (13-ae054tu) ? The charger's product page doesn’t list any of the consumer notebook models, and there is another 65W USB C charger (X7W50AA) that does. I’m guessing they both are the same charger sold under two different model numbers, one for business and the other for consumer market.

However, I’ve read that HP notebooks are quite picky when it comes to chargers especially non HP ones. Not sure how the notebooks detect the charger, so wondering if they go as far as checking the exact model number of the charger even within their own (i.e HP) charger range.

I can find the business model for almost ½ the price of the other one in many small PC retail shops, but the consumer model is only available at HP and few other handful of places at full price.

[banhien]

@opti_phoenix 

As you know HP products always have COMPATIBLE list that why you can see your machine is on the second list but NOT on the first one (cheaper).

From outside, they are very similar but please bear in mind they can talk (or communicate) with notebooks/laptops. If adapter and charger don't use same code then they are NOT compatible.

Regards.

[opti_phoenix]

I found the specifications of both chargers, they both support the same voltage and power levels. I don’t understand why HP is going out of the way to implement proprietary code checking to limit compatibility of chargers, even those made by HP themselves!. This is at a time when most other manufacturers support any charger, and when USB power standards are well defined. This is absurd.

Anyway, I’m going to buy the cheaper one and try my luck. Don’t want to pay twice as much for the same identical charger. WIll post back with my results when I get it. 

Didn’t know about this limitation when I bought the laptop, had I known  this I would have gone with a different manufacturer. Because all my devices are USB C, and I want to be able to use one charger for all. What is the point of adding a USB C charging support to this laptop if it is going to be limited to a specific charger via software/firmware?