On Sunday, my PowerBook power adaptor stopped working, unfortunately at that point my battery was nearly empty, so I now have a PowerBrick rather than a PowerBook, as a laptop with no power is kind of useless and all my data is of course on it. Luckily I have managed to find an Apple authorized service provider in London who has the right power supply in stock. Apple changed the spec on the power adaptor to a 65W one rather than the 45W one that comes with the iBook and the older PowerBook G4 machines. So despite there being several PowerBooks and iBooks in work, not one of them will work. Well, they might, but I can't find an up to date compatibility matrix for the adaptors, other than a small comment that the 65W one will work on the earlier models. There is no indication of vice versa, so murky recall of o-level physics and fear of things going bang have stopped me trying. If Apple updated the documentation to this effect would be helpful.
Suffice to say that blogging is harder without a computer... and posting pictures previously transfered is well nigh impossible. Still off to France for a few days, more later in the week.
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Erk. That happened to me a few months back. Really boring.
You should be able to replace a 45W power supply by a 65W without problem. The new power supply will simply be able to provide more power, but your PB will still pump the same amount of power, i.e. less than 45W if that was what the old power supply was able to give. Replacing a 65W by a 45W would be the bad move.
But don't send your lawyer if it doesn't work ;-)
Have a nice trip in France :)