At 09:14 PM 3/10/2003, Stan Wilder wrote:
>pensioner: You're either trying to crap on our brain or start a
>pre-Friday posting.
>The power bricks for many laptops are rated at 300 watts 120v since it
>both charges the batteries and operates the computer at the same time.
>My antique laptop operates on 1 AMP, 120v. When I say antique I mean 286,
>1990 era.
>Stan Wilder

Sorry Stan :)  The new fancy laptops are running with 75-85-watt supplies;
my Thinkpads (A20M and T23) use 72-watts; an HP 5500ct Omnibook has about a
40-watt supply.  This is for computing+charging.   The power bricks take in
an amp (Omnibook) to 1.5 (IBM), but they have a high power factor -- the
wattage consumed is considerably less than the product of volts and amps,
or volt-amperes.

cheers,
david

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