October 6, 2006 11:53
"I would love to use a 12v inverter from a cig plug (and I will for my old iBook) to charge but they don't make one yet for my new MacBook with the Magsafe plug."
Meredith,
I think you're confusing a 12v invertor with a 12v adapter. The invertor is generic, with a 120 outlet like you have on the wall at home. Simply plug the invertor into the Cigarette lighter outlet, then your macbook power supply (the same one with the Magsafe plug you would use to power it at home) into the invertor, and you're in business. The only trick is to make sure you get an invertor large enough to handle the load you're plugging into it. I suspect a Xantrex XPower 175 invertor (for about $25) would do the job quite nicely, and would be available to power other small AC appliances as well. Would certainly beat having to run the generator anytime you wanted to run your Mac.
Scot
Meredith,
I think you're confusing a 12v invertor with a 12v adapter. The invertor is generic, with a 120 outlet like you have on the wall at home. Simply plug the invertor into the Cigarette lighter outlet, then your macbook power supply (the same one with the Magsafe plug you would use to power it at home) into the invertor, and you're in business. The only trick is to make sure you get an invertor large enough to handle the load you're plugging into it. I suspect a Xantrex XPower 175 invertor (for about $25) would do the job quite nicely, and would be available to power other small AC appliances as well. Would certainly beat having to run the generator anytime you wanted to run your Mac.
Scot