In our experience, the IGO is very expensive and very unreliable... we rarely see them last as long as the inexpensive Chinese power adapters... which is really what the IGO's are.
The 12Vdc part goes out most quickly. One of our clients had a melt down that could have resulted in a fire. We have no recent experience, as the last one we saw was 10 months ago... when somebody brought one into our shop for repair. But we have anecdotal information of cell phones that were buggered up by them. You can also find them occasionally on Tech For Less for less than eBay prices. On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Laurence Spiegel < [email protected]> wrote: > > IBM/Lenovo mobile charger vs multi-gadget charger: > > I'm considering a multi-purpose gadget charger such as IGO - you get a > small transformer which accepts AC or 12vdc and then add whatever output tip > the gadget requires. I believe you can also go directly from the 12v plug to > a low power device (phone), and there's a last-ditch piece which charges > small loads from a couple of AA batts and the output tip. That beats having > yet another charger for every d-mn gadget, plus it provides a *smaller* > ac brick and an auto/air adaptor for the thinkpad (though I will rarely run > the thinkpad off 12v, it's handy for a phone/pda). > Right now it will power a T40. A multi-charger would need only another tip > to run whatever thinkpad replaces it, while I might need yet another OEM > brick for the next Thinkpad. > > I've seen the IGO gadget charger and accesories fairly cheap on eBay. I'd > imagine there are other multi-chargers as well. > > Are these reliable? Worthwhile clutter savings? Is there a difference in > power quality, interference given off between that an the IBM / other OEM > bricks? > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
