Travel lighter with Apple's power adapter

Jul 06, '06 07:30:02AM

Contributed by: Rogue.Monk

Quick! Go count the number of cords you pack when travelling with your laptop. Quite a lot, right? Here's a possible way of reducing that number. Take the adapter off your laptop power supply (or iPod power supply or Airport Express), and plug it into your other power bricks.

So long as their AC input is able to handle it (you can find this on the underside; it should read AC Input = 100-240V 50-60Hz), you shouldn't have any problem. Definitely double-check, though, so that you don't create potential problems.

I have used this for a while, and have written about it, along with some images of the solution in action.

[robg adds: I wrote about the sheer number of things I pack for even a short trip a while back, so this hint is of interest to me. And while not directly OS X related, it's related to using Apple hardware, and I thought it might be of interest to others ... I guess the rating will eventually answer that.]

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