Plugbug

This would be quite handy - hope they do a UK version eventually:

http://www.twelvesouth.com/products/plugbug/

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Sak Wathanasin
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Sak Wathanasin wrote
>
> This would be quite handy - hope they do a UK version eventually:
>
> http://www.twelvesouth.com/products/plugbug/

Can't you charge the iPad/iPhone from the USB socket at the same time as
you're charging the Air?

MST

Martin S Taylor <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> Sak Wathanasin wrote
> >
> > This would be quite handy - hope they do a UK version eventually:
> >
> > http://www.twelvesouth.com/products/plugbug/
>
> Can't you charge the iPad/iPhone from the USB socket at the same time as
> you're charging the Air?
>
I may be wrong here but in my experience, if the computer sleeps it
stops charging through the USB socket.
That's what happened to me one night on holiday recently.
Woke to a charged MBP and a still flat iPhone.

On Wed, 2 Nov 2011 09:05:44 +0100, (E-Mail Removed) (ray) wrote:

>Martin S Taylor <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> Sak Wathanasin wrote
>> >
>> > This would be quite handy - hope they do a UK version eventually:
>> >
>> > http://www.twelvesouth.com/products/plugbug/
>>
>> Can't you charge the iPad/iPhone from the USB socket at the same time as
>> you're charging the Air?
>>
>I may be wrong here but in my experience, if the computer sleeps it
>stops charging through the USB socket.
>That's what happened to me one night on holiday recently.
>Woke to a charged MBP and a still flat iPhone.

Shouldn't happen - I think all my Intel Macs respond to the presence
of an iThing by keeping the port in use live during sleep. Other stuff
won't get that benefit so won't charge, but Apply fondleslabs do.

Just checked and my 1st gen Air, 2009 iMac and 2009 MBP all behave
that way. The laptops do this while asleep too - take a sleeping
closed laptop on mains power, plug an iPhone in, it'll wake for a few
seconds, start charging the iPhone, and go back to sleep with the
iPhone still charging.

Cheers - Jaimie
--
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is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow. -- Robert Goddard

Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote
> Just checked and my 1st gen Air, 2009 iMac and 2009 MBP all behave
> that way. The laptops do this while asleep too - take a sleeping
> closed laptop on mains power, plug an iPhone in, it'll wake for a few
> seconds, start charging the iPhone, and go back to sleep with the
> iPhone still charging.

I just checked. My Air works this way, but my iBook doesn't.

MST

Jaimie Vandenbergh <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Nov 2011 09:05:44 +0100, (E-Mail Removed) (ray) wrote:
>
> >Martin S Taylor <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> >
> >> Sak Wathanasin wrote
> >> >
> >> > This would be quite handy - hope they do a UK version eventually:
> >> >
> >> > http://www.twelvesouth.com/products/plugbug/
> >>
> >> Can't you charge the iPad/iPhone from the USB socket at the same time as
> >> you're charging the Air?
> >>
> >I may be wrong here but in my experience, if the computer sleeps it
> >stops charging through the USB socket.
> >That's what happened to me one night on holiday recently.
> >Woke to a charged MBP and a still flat iPhone.
>
> Shouldn't happen - I think all my Intel Macs respond to the presence
> of an iThing by keeping the port in use live during sleep. Other stuff
> won't get that benefit so won't charge, but Apply fondleslabs do.
>
> Just checked and my 1st gen Air, 2009 iMac and 2009 MBP all behave
> that way. The laptops do this while asleep too - take a sleeping
> closed laptop on mains power, plug an iPhone in, it'll wake for a few
> seconds, start charging the iPhone, and go back to sleep with the
> iPhone still charging.
>

Of course if you've got an air, the USB socket may be in use for other
stuff, or, if there is two of you and want to be more than 3 foot
apart...

Last time I went away took so many electrical devices I took a 4 gang
extention lead though.

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