iGo Power Adapters

I talked to an IGo technical support rep last week about using an IGO Ice90 to power my Inspiron D600. He said that the Ice90 (in fact, any IGo adapter) would indeed power but not charge the battery.

His statement was that there is a chip in the battery that looks for a Dell adapter, and that this is technology that they could use but that Dell won't license it. He was unsure why Dell uses this technology, but his speculation was that it was so that Dell would sell more of their own, instead of 3rd party, power adapters.

That seems weird to me. Power Adapters? How many of these (and at what margins) could Dell be selling?

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Yes, the problem isn't finding an adapter for the Dell laptops, the problem is using a "universal" adapter for charging other electronics along with the Dell laptop. And Lind Electronics doesn't seem to sell a "universal" charger.

So either Dell is licensing this (non-standard) "technology" only to Lind, e.g. refusing to license it to IGo (maybe they got a higher price with an exclusivity promise), or Dell is asking a higher price for the license then IGo wants to pay.

I'd love to hear from Dell or IGo which this is.

Which ever the case, this is a bad decision on Dell's part (IMHO). They appear to be saying that they'd rather extract a few extra dollers in profit from licenses on non-standard technology on these non-core components then they would give their customers more choices. Like I said, not the decision I would advocate.

This is INFURIATING news. I just sent Dell $2000 for a brand new Inspiron E1705 and you're telling me they've actually designed a system that prevents me from using my Igo adapter with it?!? Until they actually confirm that they have a good reason for doing this I'm going to assume it's to solely a means for forcing customers to buy accesories from only them.

These are just the kind of situations that force loyal customers to look elsewhere for computers in the future. I hope Dell's power supply sales make up for that lost income.

I am equally ticked.  I travel all the time and can't use my igo.  dell shouldcome up with some type of licensing agreement.  this is crazy.  because dell wants to make a few bucks they are making me carry multiple power adapters.  I will not be a second dell adapter.  This stinks.  My company switched to Dell, which is a good brand (I own 3 other machines personally) but when I upgrade my next personal laptop.... won't be a dell.

Just bought Kensington 120 AC/CD and it works with my D410 and charges the battery.  I hatted laying out the 150 bucks since i already have an igo but watcha gonna do.

Yeah, I may have to s-u-c-k ( :rolleyes: ) it up here and buy the Kensington. Although I hate to support Dell's actions in this situation.

Message Edited by Joel.Moore on 04-01-2006 04:53 AM

I checked the iGo tip and it appears that they just have not connected one of the wires in the tip.  I assume they have an agreement with Dell not to manufacture a full function tip.  I checked and Targus has the same issue, I have emailed Kensington's tech support since their website did not state if their tips work or not.

I am now VP of operations for my company, in te past we had standardized on Dell for internal and customer based projects, I will look at alternative companies because of this ridiculous decision by Dell Marketing.