I just responded to the other post, and I definitely agree with you that when you’re working with so many systems, knowing you have a baseline for the power supplies is important! (Especially given how sketchy those third-party adapters can be…)
But I will say I think it’s pretty anti -consumer, and not accidental at all, that there is vendor lock in there. And as I said in that reply, I think a setting in the BIOS with a warning (and maybe a warranty invalidation?) that allowed it would have been the more friendly approach, but I can only imagine how much the lawyers would yell about why that’s a bad idea, haha
USB-PD made me so happy, I was using my Apple power adapter with my Surface and Dell laptops and it was great!
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 3 days ago
Well put.
Though I’ve had little trouble using other power supplies across brands, so I wonder of this is a single HP line.
I’ve never run across this in business models - if the barrel fits it works, but each brand used their own barrel design, whether that was a different size or a pin in the middle.
And I’ve worked with many brands since the mid 90’s - I’ve deployed thousands of machines over the years - not to say I’ve seen all of them, but a lot of the major brand’s business models.
Consumer models are just garbage, so if this happens there I’m neither surprised nor concerned. I never buy consumer models - they’re garbage, and cheaper for that reason.
And now C is resolving the issue.