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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