Belkin (at least in the UK) has announced a couple of new power bricks for netbooks. One is for travel, the other for the home.
First up is the 40W AC/DC Travel Netbook Power Adapter with a selection of 5 interchangeable tips which work with known netbook brands such as ASUS, Acer, Dell, HP, Samsung and Toshiba. Weighs 210g without cable and is 61.5 mm x 111.5 mm x 24.2 mm in size.
Then there’s the 90W AC Home / Office Netbook Power Adapter with 8 different tips to work with more netbooks. Weighs 350g and is 147 mm x 70 mm x 16 mm in size.
I don’t see pricing up at the UK site, but Notebook Italia has the first one priced at 50 Euros and the second noe at 60 Euros.
Source: Notebook Italia.
My thoughts are that Netbooks are cheap, and tend to come with tiny little power bricks. Since this is neither cheap, nor tiny, I can’t imagine why I’d buy this.
There might be a market for this sort of thing on a $1000 laptop, but for a $300 netbook? No thanks, I’ll just stick with the brick that came with it thanks.