I use this to plug in my MacBook Pro when I'm at home, although I
occasionally take it with me to my local coffee shop. I have no trouble
fitting it inside my bag. I hope people realize that to do what it does,
this product really couldn't be any smaller. Yes, there are mini power
strips that are smaller, but have no surge protection or USB charging.
Besides, Amazon does provide the product's dimensions; take a moment to
pull out a tape measure to get an idea of what you'll get. Unless you
use a really tight fitting sleeve or bag to carry your laptop, I don't
see why it would be such a problem to fit this unit inside the average
laptop bag. A lot of power supply "bricks" are larger and heavier.
The
rotating plug allows you to fit this unit in any position without
covering other outlets. I have not tried the USB outlets yet, as I tend
to use AC chargers for my portable gadgets, but the idea is great for
road warriors that need all their laptop USB ports.
January 2, 2009
I
wanted to add that I recently purchased an iPod Touch and it charges
without a problem off of this device. It has continued to give me good
service and now lives permanently attached to my laptop's power cord. I
see that people still can't be bothered to use a tape measure. Really
this is not that big for what it does.
To get directly to this
items flaw... It cannot recharge/power more than one USB item at a time.
So what's the point in having two USB outputs?
The 120V outlets work
as advertised. The ability to rotate the prongs is a plus as it can be
adjusted to most if not all outlets.
The USB power fails if more than
one item at a time is plugged into the surge protector. Even if, say
your phone is fully charged, if you go to connect another item to run or
charge, the surge protector will not supply the power that both items
demand. The items that are connected will act as if they have been
disconnected from their power source, then once the surge protector
accumulates enough power(not certain, but seem to act as if there are
capacitors)to start supplying power once again the items connected to
the USB ports start to operate briefly until the surge protector cannot
supply enough power for the two items.
As stated before, it will
supply ONE item with power, without a problem. But will not supply
enough power for two, even if one item is fully charged.
** Thank
you Jeff Backe, I've been putting off editing this post in response to
all the people saying that '500mA is the standard' for quite some time.
This 500mA WAS the standard well before i made this purchase. The newer
standard for wall chargers, which I believe this falls under, has been
out since around mid 2007. This new specification UP TO 1800mA(1.8A) per
port.
When I made my purchase there also weren't the nice pictures
the show you the current rates. So there really wasn't any way for me to
know this until I received it.
Another thing, this item is rated at
500mA(.5mA) per port but is not actually limited to 500mA at the port if
you only plug in one item. In other words, the way this item is
configured it will actually put out the full 1000mA(1A)through one port,
hence the reason you can plug in a high current draw device using one
port. But when you plug in that second item the 1000mA is now split in
half or however much each device is trying to draw. It is only able to
keep up with this high demand for a short while until its capacitors are
drained and cuts off supplying power, then quickly recharges the
capacitors and re-establishes the supply of power once again. I doubt
this cycling can't be good for either device.
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