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[Riba]

On Fri, 06 Aug 2004 08:50:51 -0400, "Sean Terrill" <a10t2 at mac.com> said:
> Quoth Riba (riba at ml1.net) at 06/08/2004 08:30:
> 
> >> All this ends up to the fact that the speakers cannot and are not
> >> allowed to eat up more than this 500ma. Meaning they can be connected
> >> to any USB outlet that has this 500mw available!
> > 
> > _If_ 500 mA is all they require. Anyone has some hard facts here?
> 
> 20 W/12 V = 1.67 A (1667 mA)

I guess that's a hard fact. So there is no way that regular, or shall we
say standard USB ports can reliably drive these speakers. And it
wouldn't be the first time that Apple 'modifies the standard'