Originally Posted by
zombietooth
Truth! However, Apple's design leaves much to be desired. I have problems with the the "brick" being too big to fit in some older hotel bedside configurations (i.e. the "brick" is too tall or fat for some night stand outlets, etc.). I always carry a power strip to in my carry-on for this reason.
It's been a few year since I bought an Apple laptop, but all the ones I have have come with an extender cord terminating in a 3-prong plug with a minimal footprint.
For on board, though, I do as others suggested and use a 3-prong international adapter.
Originally Posted by
bmwe92fan
LOL - the issue we've had splitting ports is that each outlet on most planes has a max wattage it will allow - and if you exceed it the outlet will simply turn off. Many high power laptops actually exceed this wattage which is why they have an "airplane" mode to pull less juice and not trip the breaker...
Sometimes you can kind of 'coax' the outlet to work but just unplugging / re-plugging a few times. I think what's happening is you're getting the charger's transformers 'charged' up, and then they don't hit the max wattage during normal use. But anyway, that has worked for pretty much every laptop charger I've ever had to use.