[ale] OT: Good source of laptop power adapters?

[Michael B. Trausch]

On Sat, 7 Feb 2009 16:17:11 -0500
"Jeff Lightner" <jlightner at water.com> wrote:

> Be careful.  The newer Dells have electronics in the power supply to
> allow the charging to occur.  If the battery doesn't recognize your
> adapter (e.g. it didn't come from Dell) it won't charge.  However, you
> can run the laptop from the power provided by such 3rd party adapters
> - just can't charge.
> 
> I found this out when my old Thinkpad died and I tried to use my
> universal adapter for the new Dell Latitude D630.

Wow.  That's completely nasty.  I assume people are complaining about
this, though?

	--- Mike

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