LAS VEGAS –– Good news: You’ll soon be able to leave that weighty brick of a laptop charger of yours at home.
No,
it’s not because the everlasting battery has been invented. Instead,
California company FINsix is launching the next-best thing: “The world’s
smallest laptop charger.”
Called Dart,
the charger comes in several attractive color options, is packaged with
a collection of tips to fit plenty of computer models, and, most
delightfully, is only slightly larger than a regular smartphone charger.
Not as delightful, though, is Dart’s $89 price tag, which surely won’t
appeal to everyone.
Still,
virtually every laptop owner in the world is qualified to lament the
bulky nature of the power bricks today’s portable computers are paired
with. It’s one of the few pieces in tech not to significantly shrink in size over the years — until now, that is.
Dart claims international compatibility
(100-240 volts) with Acer, Samsung, ASUS, Dell, Sony, and Lenovo
laptops (among others), but the charger also comes with connections to
juice smartphones or tablets that fit a USB-based power cable. An
adapter for Apple’s MacBooks will be added sometime after the Dart
ships, the company says.
One disclaimer: Serious gamers or video editors may need to look closely at Dart’s technical specs, as higher-powered laptops often require more than the 65 watts Dart supplies.
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