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JZ, you want to charge your macbook in the car? you will need some kind of adapter for that and those aren't particularly cheap.
You could get a hypermac battery (if you buy one a certain size, it comes with a car adapter automatically), but it is $100 I think.
le n, yeah, sigh. That's what I was afraid of. We're already scrounging to make this trip, so we really can't justify that.
However, meara, hmmm. I think we can swing the radio adapter -- and since most of the drive will be on I-5 between here and Oregon, which is mostly open land with the occasional small town or gas station, we shouldn't have too much of a problem with finding a station to use.
When's the trip, JZ? I have one, but I won't be in your area til September.
Is there any reason JZ couldn't use any 85+ watt power inverter with the regular charger that plugs into the wall? I think the specialized ones are designed to charge with DC power.
You may be right, Ginger. I should check our box of miscellaneous cables and chargers and adapters to see what we've already got. But if we can get a radio adapter, I think we can make do - we'll have our laptop and Emmett's, both fully charged, which should have enough power for at least two movies. Between those, the iPod, and possibly even interacting with each other and noticing the passing landscape outside, we should be fine until we get to the cheap motel halfway up. Recharge overnight, then on to Portland, and Bob's your uncle. Or something.
Aw, meara, thanks, but we're leaving Thursday morning.
JZ, I've got a transmitter you can use.
Offtopic, but - JZ, I hope you guys know about the Shell station on the North side of Ashland that has an enormous selection of esoteric sodas (and also some crazy deal where if you pay with coins of a certain vintage your gas is ridiculously cheap, but I'm afraid I don't remember the year)
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I've charged a laptop using an inverter plugged into my car and nothing was destroyed, fwtw.
In our '00 Ford Focus we have several times on long trips run a ca. 2005 MacBook using the simple $30 Radio Shack inverter that plugs into the cigarette lighter. As far as I can tell this was in no way related to the car dropping a cylinder head and dying, and the MacBook is still running just fine.
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Bonnie, might want to Google your model of G5 Mac, It might have a "coin" cell type battery for newer models:
Snooping around a bit it looks like a standard CR2032 3v battery. If so, you can pick one up for under a buck, many places, or pay $30 for a Gen-u-ine official replacement.