\u201cGeneric\u201d Cable: 22 hours and 59 minutes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nAs you can see, there was something considerably different about the \u201cgeneric\u201d cable; with the backlight on, it barely trickle-charged. The main thing we noticed was that it was a narrower gauge than the Apple and NewerTech cables, and not as high-quality.<\/p>\n
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Sometimes, important lessons crop up in unexpected places. The new iPads come with 12 Watt adapter bricks, rather than the 10W ones that came with previous generations, so we wanted to make sure our existing 30-pin cables would work with them. After all, it\u2019s easier to use one brick and just switch the cables if you had more than one device, such as when traveling. That it\u2019s a slightly higher-output source also suggested slightly-faster charge times. As it turns out, that wasn\u2019t always the case.<\/p>\n