On Friday 03 December 2004 10:57 am, Brian Densmore wrote:
I suspect that the guts of the Inspiron 8xxx adaptors is quite the same. With perhaps minor variations for connectors.
If they're decent manufacturers, they change the connector when the voltages change.
Over the course of four years with a company, I saw six or seven different IBM laptop models in use, and all of the power supplies were interchangable. Some were larger, some different shapes, some had three prong power cords and some two, and some had slightly different current ratings, but they all were the same voltage and worked with all the different models. (There was one model that wouldn't work with the oldest of the power supplies because it didn't have quite enough capacity to both run the laptop and charge the battery.)
I took advantage of this interchangability to make sure all the people who actually took their laptops out of the office had a spare power supply so they could leave the one at their desk plugged in.
Winbook, on the other hand, has changed the voltage and current requirements over the years, and their power supplies are not interchangable; they use different size connectors.
As for the recall, frequently recalls are attributed to a bad batch of a single component, or a problem in the assembly process, and they frequently only cover a certain range of serial numbers. Recalls due to a design defect are much rarer, and would tend to cover a whole model line.