[P1] Yo-yo vs. square power adapters

patdart patdart at cox-internet.com
Sat Mar 20 15:28:29 PST 2004


Well, my older TiBook pin doesn't fit the newer iBook, but the iBook 
seems to work for either...

Pat, who may not 'get' the discussion


On Saturday, March 20, 2004, at 05:12 PM, gwallace wrote:

> On Mar 19, 2004, at 5:49 AM, Small Moose Ltd wrote:
>
>> Now I think the difference between the yo-yo and the white brick 
>> adaptor is
>> that their plugs that are inserted into the iBook are different 
>> sizes. If
>> you have one of the first revision of white Icebooks, then you can 
>> probably
>> use the yo-yo quite happily, but if you have the 600MHz onwards, then 
>> they
>> use a different socket size.
>
> No.  I have a TiBook with the Yo-yo that has a straight connection (G3 
> PowerBook and clamshell iBooks have a yo-yo with 90 degree angle at 
> the connection point and a bigger pin).  It fits fine in the G4 
> iBook--and appears to charge fine as well.
> -----------------------
> Gina Wallace
> Topsham, Maine
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