Laptop power supply elbow

Hi

My sister and i have the same laptop but they came with slightly
different power supplies, mine comes from the supply and has a
straight jack that plugs into the back of the laptop.

My sisters also has this straight jack but hers came with an elbow
adapter type piece, so that when she plugs it in the cable is now at
90 degrees to the laptop.

I want to buy one of these little elbows because they are ideal for
stopping un-due strain being put on the power supply cable or the
jack.

Can someone tell me what these pieces are called, i tried googling
obvious things like laptop power elbow etc but to no avail.

Thanks for any help

Gillian

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Gilz typed on Sun, 6 Jul 2008 05:04:15 -0700 (PDT):
> Hi
>
> My sister and i have the same laptop but they came with slightly
> different power supplies, mine comes from the supply and has a
> straight jack that plugs into the back of the laptop.
>
> My sisters also has this straight jack but hers came with an elbow
> adapter type piece, so that when she plugs it in the cable is now at
> 90 degrees to the laptop.
>
> I want to buy one of these little elbows because they are ideal for
> stopping un-due strain being put on the power supply cable or the
> jack.
>
> Can someone tell me what these pieces are called, i tried googling
> obvious things like laptop power elbow etc but to no avail.
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> Gillian

Do you mean something like this?

http://i12.ebayimg.com/03/i/000/9c/63/0cc3_1.JPG

If so, he easiest way is to buy a new AC adapter that has a 90° for your
model. Another idea is to buy an universal AC adapter that fits many
different types of laptops. Either or, you can usually get them in the US$20
to US$30 price range.

--
Bill
Gateway Celeron M 370 (1.5GHZ)
MX6124 (laptop) w/2GB
Windows XP Home SP2 120GB HD)
Intel(r) 910GML (64MB shared)

Gilz wrote:
> Hi
>
>
> My sisters also has this straight jack but hers came with an elbow
> adapter type piece, so that when she plugs it in the cable is now at
> 90 degrees to the laptop.
>
> I want to buy one of these little elbows because they are ideal for
> stopping un-due strain being put on the power supply cable or the
> jack.
> Gillian
>
There are two schools of thought here...

Right angled is 'neater', resists tugging and allows latop to be pushed
up against objects without straining the cable..

Straight allows DC jack to pull out rather than tug laptop off the
table... (if the pull is not at a right angle ;-))

Long, straight DC plugs may cause the DC socket on the mo/bo to fail due
to repeated flexing - less likely with RA plugs?

Some Mactops have a funky magnetic DC connector for this very reason.

Guy

Thanks for the replies

I'm not sure if you understood what my question was. I understand that
some power supplies come with a straight jack and some come with a
right angled one.

My point was that my sisters came with a straight jack, but attached
to it was a further removable right angled elbow piece, which
basically converted her straight jack into an elbowed one.

I want to buy one of these little elbow adapters, so i can convert my
straight jack into an right angled one, but can't find them anywhere
and wondered if anyone knew what they were called.

Thanks

Gillian

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Gilz <gdonald@tlpsystems.co.uk> typed on Wed, 9 Jul 2008 10:11:44 -0700
(PDT):
> Thanks for the replies
>
> I'm not sure if you understood what my question was. I understand that
> some power supplies come with a straight jack and some come with a
> right angled one.
>
> My point was that my sisters came with a straight jack, but attached
> to it was a further removable right angled elbow piece, which
> basically converted her straight jack into an elbowed one.
>
> I want to buy one of these little elbow adapters, so i can convert my
> straight jack into an right angled one, but can't find them anywhere
> and wondered if anyone knew what they were called.
>
> Thanks
>
> Gillian

Nope! Never seen one of those Gillian. But I could see thousands of those
being sold on eBay if you could find a source for them. And that is what it
sounded like you were talking about, but I pass that thought by since I had
never seen one of those.

--
Bill
Gateway Celeron M 370 (1.5GHZ)
MX6124 (laptop) w/2GB
Windows XP Home SP2 120GB HD)
Intel(r) 910GML (64MB shared)