Notebook design: ten things we love 
Published: 14 Nov 2008 10:13 GMT
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Small AC adapters
The bane of a mobile professional's life is the amount of ancillary kit that needs to be carried in order to stay productive when on the road. One item that can't be left at home is the notebook's AC adapter, and in the past these could be seriously unwieldy 'bricks'. Thankfully, manufacturing efficiencies mean that power supplies can now be made small enough to properly complement the notebooks they're designed to recharge. The 36W (12V, 3A) adapter for an ASUS Eee pictured above, for example, measures just 85mm by 34mm by 26mm and weighs around 150g.
We're less enamoured about the plethora of ideograms and standards marks that clutter up the label, but that's another story. At some point, AC adapters may become too small to accomodate them — but let's hope that doesn't hold up the miniaturisation process.
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