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Subject:Re: Laptop Power Consumption?
From:Simon Reinhardt
Date:Mon, 18 Nov 2002 10:22:32 -0700

I'll chime in on this, too. Just checking around the room, the power
supplies for a camcorder, an IBM laptop, and an HP laptop all have a
huge tolerance range for input voltage, and we've used all of them in
the van with a Belkin "AC Anywhere" el-cheapo inverter.
-Simon

On Monday, November 18, 2002, at 08:54  AM, Gnarlodious wrote:

> Entity pensioner spoke thus:
>
>> Check the
>> waveform before deciding that cheaper is better.  The computer
>> powersupply
>> may have some limitations regarding waveform.  It expects a pretty
>> clean
>> sinewave
> Naw, I am running the cheapest and noisiest inverter in the world and
> my Mac
> TiBook doesn't even notice.
>
> Hope that makes sense . . .
>