There Oughta Be a Standard: Laptop Power Supplies

Posted by timothy on Thursday June 23, 2011 @06:02AM from the watch-them-make-it-lefthanded-micro-usb-3 dept.

Esther Schindler writes "Every mobile device you own has its own power supply and its own proprietary plug. There oughta be a better way, says Alfred Poor. Fortunately, he reports, the IEEE is coming to the rescue. "Their Universal Power Adapter for Mobile Devices (UPAMD) Working Group is developing a new standard that will not just address the needs of laptops and tablets, but will be intended to work with just about any electronics device that required between 10 and 240 watts of power," Poor writes. It's about darned time." If there's one thing I wish for all laptop power supplies, it's that they would license from Apple (or work around, patent-wise) the magnet attachment system that makes cable-tripping far less dangerous to man or beast, compared to a few years ago.

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This must have been written by a communist by panikfan · 2011-06-23 06:48 · Score: -1, Troll

Yeah, standards for everything! We should have a standard car to drive, and a standard house to live in, and standards regarding how many kids you can have and how much money you can make! Great fucking idea man. Now go back to your hole and read a fucking history book moron.