Alum. 15" PB with Titaniumm PB power adapter....
Greetings.
I am going on location with my 15" Alum. PB 1.67. I am also bringing along an older 15" Titanium PB 667 as a back-up.
My ? is can the power adapter from the Alum PB be used on the Titanium PB to charge and/or use as normal?
And the other way around: can the power adapter from the Titanium be used to power and/or charge the Aluminum PB.
The reason I ask, is that I have a power adapter thing that plugs into a car's cigarette lighter and the other end plugs into my older Titanium PB. I just want to see if I can use the same adapter thing to use with the Aluminum PB with out blowing something up.
Thanks for your help.
Jonathan
From your answer, I understand that the Alum PB uses the 65W and the T PB uses the 45w adapter
Correct.
So, is what you are saying is that I could run the Alum. PB from the car adapter (I'm assuming that is about 45w since I bought it to be connected to the T book), without damaging my Aluminum PB?
To say to absolute certainty that a 45W adapter will not damage I cannot say although I've used a 45W adapter with my PowerBook Aluminium no no apparent ill effects. Your car adapter should work fine.
I will just be off loading photos to a folder from a card reader. I won't be doing any Photoshop or the likes. I just want to transfer images from compact flash cards to the AL. PB
If that's all you want to do then there should be no problem with your plan. There are other alternatives although they will cost money. Such as a media card adapter to go with a 60GB iPod. That would be a nice little solution.
I can also keep the lid closed if that would help.
Not really as that would put your PowerBook to sleep.
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