There Oughta Be a Standard: Laptop Power Supplies 482
Esther Schindler writes "Every mobile device you own has its own power supply and its own proprietary plug. There oughta be a better way, says Alfred Poor. Fortunately, he reports, the IEEE is coming to the rescue. "Their Universal Power Adapter for Mobile Devices (UPAMD) Working Group is developing a new standard that will not just address the needs of laptops and tablets, but will be intended to work with just about any electronics device that required between 10 and 240 watts of power," Poor writes. It's about darned time." If there's one thing I wish for all laptop power supplies, it's that they would license from Apple (or work around, patent-wise) the magnet attachment system that makes cable-tripping far less dangerous to man or beast, compared to a few years ago.
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Your dog falls off your coffee table twice as often as your iBook? Why do you keep your dog on your coffee table? If he's that prone to falls you should keep him/her on the floor.
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Then you could just plug your laptop into it's own USB port and you're all set!
That would be cool, I could power my laptop from its own USB port while I am busy copying my mp3s onto itself via USB! It has to work with USB2, though, because the volume of stuff I have to copy is too large and would take longer that one charging cycle otherwise.
Of course, I could always just turn the volume down and get done copying faster. I should have thought of that before.