Were it sothat I had a favourite laptop power brick, this would most certainly beit. I know that you generally stick with the default adapter that camewith your laptop, but there are plus points to dropping £50 on a brandnew one like the CoolerMaster SNA 95.
Obviously the most likelyof usage scenarios remains grabbing a third-party adapter when youroriginal one craps out, but this one from Coolermaster offers more thanmost.
For a start it is literally half the thickness of theadapter that came with the MSI GT740 I've been playing with - beingonly a few millimetres thicker than my svelte li'l mobile phone.
USB charging
It also comes with a handy cable-tie attachment that allows for easierstorage on the go, but the standout option for the man-on-the-move hasto be the addition of a USB charge-point based in the brick itself.
Thismeans you can charge anything with a USB connector by the adapter aloneso you don't have to either have your machine on while you charge orget in the way of topping up your lappy's battery.
It'simpressively connected too; coming as it does with eight different plugvariants to cater for all the big boys, while Coolermaster also statesthat it can still provide operating power for other laptops withnon-standard connectors though it might not charge the battery.
Forfifty quid it's still a hard sell when your current adapter is stillworking; £30 and it would have been a must-have for the travellingnotebook owner. As it is it's still a mighty tempting little thing.
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