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Jul 6, 2008 | 9:26 pm

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Dick Ginkowski

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Originally Posted by sbm12

Congrats on having such expensive gear.

I just compared my Dell power supplies and the two and three-prong cables are a bit different but not enough that I can see it affecting my total load enough to buy these extra adapters. I do like the two-prong as it is more universally functional for plugs/adapters around the world.

My camera charges using a brick transformer so it wouldn't matter with this. I only see it affecting the laptop power supply. What are the 10 things that you're buying it for?

Multiple laptops. Don't need 10 but the quantity discount was a better deal. In the past we'd buy a two-wire power supply for each new laptop but now it's $2.50 for the adapter and $4 for a two-wire cable...much cheaper than a new power supply.

BTW--two wire supplies are sold by most manufacturers as an option.

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