macbook car charger [Archive]

jj the amazing

Apr 5, 2009, 11:04 PM

i am about to go on vacation and i have a car charger to plug my macbook into. I was wondering how many watts it would take to run it while in the car.
Thank you in advance

hndn

Apr 5, 2009, 11:36 PM

I have a car adapter/converter, it's convience for everything instead of carry an adapter for each device.

jj the amazing

Apr 6, 2009, 03:19 PM

I have a car adapter/converter, it's convience for everything instead of carry an adapter for each device.

yes i have a car adapter that has a socket on it i just need to know amount of watts i will need.

hndn

Apr 6, 2009, 03:54 PM

Shouldn't it be the same as the original adapter accordingly?

michael.lauden

Apr 6, 2009, 04:00 PM

this has been posted about 30,000 times.

but i would like to say again that instead of buying specific things to power specific things.

you can just buy an inverter and plug a surge protector (fused to right below the max input of whatever power adaptor you're using) - that way no surges come through and if there is a bad one, the fuse will pop.

ive done this about 10 times with no problems with a MBP and no problems with MY UMB.

works nicely as you can charge your iPhone off the MacBook too :)