[Cialug] Laptop

[Tim Champion]

I have a D420 as my primary work computer. It's awesome, I love it. Just now
my screen hinges are starting to get floppy, but it's been about 2 years or
so. Battery life is very good.

Tim Champion
timchampion at gmail.com


On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 11:13 PM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:

> My Dell Latitude D420 had as an option a "Slim Auto/Airline" adapter.
> You can get this on ebay for about $30 and it runs a variety of the
> notebooks. I also used it to power a Latitude D610.
>
> If you want a very portable computer, the D4x0 series are pretty
> awesome. With the extended battery it weighs about 3lb 6 oz and has a
> 1280x800 wide screen display. the D420 and D430 are both excellent
> models, recently replaced by the Latitude E4200 and E4300 series.
>
> By the way, a switch mode power supply can easily boost the 11-14v
> from a car to the 17-19v needed by most laptops. It's extremely
> efficient so really any computer should be able to work in a car if
> the manufacturer just takes the time to make the proper power adapter.
> Oh, and I bought a universal auto adapter by Kensington at CompUSA a
> little while back. Kind of bulky, costs about $95 but works great.
>
> On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 7:03 PM, Mark Hesseltine
> <markhesseltine at gmail.com> wrote:
> > While I haven't measured it for current draw, the Dell 131L I have at
> > work came with a 12V cigarette-lighter plug for the charger, as well
> > as a standard 110VAC wall plug.
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