[X4U] Power adapter for Titanium PowerBook

[Michel Treisman]

On 6 Oct, 2005, at 15:40, Linda wrote:
>> Here is the serial number:   V73180VGMVZ    -  someone with access to 
>> the
>> apple.com database could check that out.  
>
> Ran the number past a Genius, who looked in the apple.com database:
>
>> Purchased in the United States, that's a PowerBook G4 17"/1GHz/512MB/
>> 60GB/SD/AP/BT
>>
>> It's Aluminum.

You sure are persistent. I salute you.  It seems I have been misled all 
this time. The guy at the small computer shop that sold it to me 
described it as Titanium, and I assumed he knew what he was talking 
about.

How wrong can  one be?

>
> <http://www.apple.com/support/powerbook/doityourself/17al/> Is the 
> website
> on Apple.com for 17" PBs, and the "al" at the end of the URL stands for
> Aluminum. (Also has the same photo that your dooyoo site uses, FWIW -- 
> the
> dooyoo is picturing an aluminum PowerBook on their site.)
>

I think they are a new startup, I have never heard of them in the past. 
I wonder what they are really selling?

>  Genius says:
>
>> He needs either our 65 watt portable power adapter or a third party, 
>> like the
>> iGo (which I have) that will adapt any of our PowerBooks since the Ti 
>> books.
>> He can get away with lower wattage one; it won't charge correctly, 
>> but it will
>> run from the adapter.
>

> Personally, I wouldn't trust the lower-wattage adapter.
>

Thanks, I won't. That cuts out the Macally which is only 48 watts.
I liked the look of the Newer Tech adaptor, but I can't find it here in 
the UK.
I found the iGo in the UK. But I have just now checked ebay and found 
an Apple adaptor that is "New damaged packaging", and less than half 
the cost of the iGo adapter, so I think I will  go for that, if I'm not 
too late.
Thanks  to you and everyone else who contributed advice.

Mike