Kensington 120-Watt Ultraportable Wall Notebook PC Power Adapter
- Slim, lightweight design saves space and travels easily
- Powers and charge a notebook computer from any Wall source
- Notebook tips included for most Dell, HP, Compaq, IBM, Lenovo, Toshiba, Sony, Gateway, Acer PCs
- Includes a SmartTip to power and charge USB compatible mobile devices, including iPod, mobile or smartphones, and PDAs from the adapter
- Works with your own USB cable or purchase a Kensington USB Power Tip Pack with retractable USB cable (sold separately)
Product Description
Ultra portable power for notebooks and mobile devices. You’ve got the power. This slim profile power adapter delivers big power in a space-saving design to handle almost any notebooks as well as a variety of mobile devices. So whether you’re at home or the office, or travelling, you’ll have all the power you need. Provides up to 120 watts – plenty of power for today’s high performance notebooks. Unit measures 5.6 in. x 3.1 in x .77 in and weights just 7 ounces (a… More >>
Kensington 120-Watt Ultraportable Wall Notebook PC Power Adapter
Amazon.Com Shipper says they ship to the US but will not ship to Hawaii, USA… Product never bought for this reason.
Rating: 1 / 5
I purchased this item to power my MacBook on airplanes. I had four long haul flights this month. Two 7 hour flights, and two 10 hour flights on United Boeing 777s. I could only get the Kensington Ultra Portable Inverter to work on the first flight out. On the others, as soon as I plugged the Inverter into the Empower recepticle, the Empower light would go off. When I pulled the Inverter out, the Empower light came back on. For what I bought it for, this product did not do its job.
Rating: 1 / 5
I bought an earlier version of this product about a year ago and was happy with it until I bought my Dell 1300 last month. Kensington does not have the power tip for my Dell, a popular value notebook! I emailed their customer service and 2 weeks and 5 Indians later, I was told that I was out of luck and they couldn’t do anything about it! They even locked my Q&A session with customer service so I could not add more comments to it. Be careful, same thing could happen to this adapter. Just remember to check which notebook computer you want to buy and make sure Kensington has the power tip for you!
Rating: 1 / 5
Nice item, but due to the way it hangs on the wall (I am lead to believe this is to help cool it) the weight pulls the top of the plug out the socket enough to expose the top of the electrical pins. I’ve uploaded a photo. This is not acceptable in a household with children!
Rating: 1 / 5
Outwardly the K33197US is compact, lightweight and attractive with a polished mirror surface that is likely to get scratched up easily with normal use. As noted by many other reviewers the cord to the wall outlet is way too short (still six inches in 2009) , and the advertising claims made for the unit as listed on this web site and on the manufacturers web site and in the printed literature that accompany the product are not borne out. The sources cited list eleven tips as being included with the product, specifically N1, N2, N3, N9, N14, N15, N19, N27, N29, and N30 along with a USB tip.
In reality the product I received came with five tips, namely N3, N14, N19, N29, and N30. The Kensington web site is happy to sell you the missing tips for about ten bucks a pop. Consumer advocates have names for companies that make claims like this and deliver half the goods. The missing tips are for products from Toshiba, IBM, HP, and Sony. This product as it ships from amazon will not fit any Sony laptop or USB device. For functioning tips it will work from the wall or automobile. It is a gross distortion to say that the shipping product will “power or charge virtually all notebook computers from any AC or DC source” or that it “works on most HP, Compaq, Sony, IBM, Gateway, and Averatec notebooks.” It might work on a select few models for each of the brands listed, that is it. Any user of competing products that need over twenty tips and still miss working on hundreds of models will know the specious nature of such a claim.
There is no listing in the product literature of specific models that the supplied tips will fit and no mention the user should consult the manufacturer to discover what tips can safely be used with what models. The product literature actually says that you should just try the tips until you find one that works!!! This is a formula for disaster. There is, in fact, no tip compatibility guide anywhere on the Kensington site or even a list of models on the pages that sell SmartTips. No consumer can find out in advance from the site whether the laptop they own will actually work with the K33197US or whether the tip they need will ship with the product. It is best for safety and warranty protection purposes to use a factory issued adapter from the company that makes your laptop, much cheaper and no guessing. Who wants to fry a laptop worth ten times the price of this product with no recourse.
Rating: 1 / 5