@thelog 488579 wrote:
The wire has been fucking up over the last week or so. and this morning the connection finally broke inside the insulation. I tested it with a volty gadgety thing and it was deaded so I had to get a new one. But that was after I sent out a distress call to PV. Just incase I was stuck without a lappy for some time.
Yeah, it’s a VERY stupid solution the manufacturers use – the wire that takes the power to the laptop, doesn’t actually have the long term capacity to transfer the juice.
Eventually, because the wires stay hot, the insulation melts, the wires short out inside the cable, and it’s bye-bye power supply.
In fact, with only one exception (Fujitsu circa 2003) ALL laptop power supplies and connectors that I have come across have sucked donkey balls.
Moral – don’t buy a unit with a built in DVD or Blu-ray drive. Netbooks use LOTS less power. You can always plug in an external USB DVD or Blu-Ray drive (and you’ll make friends with other owners who don’t have such a drive but who get software on DVD or Blu-Ray and want that software running on their Netbook).
