[Ti] AlBook Plug problem at high altitude?

John McGibney ncicchek at optonline.net
Mon Aug 9 10:24:35 PDT 2004


>> So this is just plain weird, and I'm hoping someone can shed some
>> insight.  I live in Durango, CO, at 6,800 feet above sea level.  I
>> have 3 friends of mine with 15" AlBooks, and I just got my 1.5ghz 15"
>> AlBook, and here is the problem we ALL experience:
>> The power adapter will just come out.  It's like it's all the way in
>> when it has a mm left, and you give it a good push to finish it off so
>> that it is charging, but randomly you'll notice that it has gone back
>> out to the 1mm out position.  I thought this was a general problem,
>> and was wondering why more people weren't complaining, however, I am
>> writing this from Hawaii, and the pluug is in solidly, and not coming
>> out.  So I am led to believe that it is related to Altitude.
>> 
>> Theories on what's going on?
> 
> Low humidity in Durango?
> 
> -Phil Glenn
>
Rocky mountain high?


Temperature related? Cooler temperatures causing plastic/metal contraction
problems?

John

  *----------- A Thought for the Day ------------*

Jean Kerr wrote, "If you can keep your head when all about
you are losing theirs, it's just possible you haven't grasped
the situation."




More information about the Titanium mailing list