Re: OT: laptop power auto-continuation?

Nev wrote:
> So, the question. We're looking at a laptop [we're never owned one] for a
> soon-to-be college student, but don't know if --while running on house
> current, and hooked to its own surge protector-- the laptop's batteries
> would automatically takeover during a house current outage. Does the answer
> depend on the laptop brand, or do they all switch over, or what? 

It had better do that! Otherwise what would happen if you unplugged the 
charger while the machine was on?

At least, mine (Dell) does, and I'm 99% sure all modern laptops do. ICBW 
though.

Better yet, many modern laptops will auto-hibernate when their battery 
is about to run out. In other words, you won't lose your work even if 
the battery is going to go flat.

- 5parrow