While desktop PC energy provides obtain the majority of lovers’ consideration for good causes – not the least of which being the huge collection of choices that comes from being a standardized half – energy provides as a complete aren’t only a concern for giant PCs. With the vast majority of PC gross sales having flipped to pocket book gross sales some years in the past, pocket book energy provides already lead the market in quantity. And whereas most laptops don’t want the form of massively powered PSUs that dominate the desktop house, even that’s slowly altering as desktop replacement-class laptops more and more develop in efficiency and energy consumption.
Perhaps the poster-child for the high-performance, high-powered laptop computer is Eurocom, who has an extended historical past of growing heavy-duty DTR laptops which might be all however moveable desktop programs. Following latest tendencies in GPU energy consumption and in GPU recognition for each gaming and AI workloads, the corporate has been promoting a variety of “mobile supercomputers”, that are virtually massive, tailored laptops that rival even one of the best of desktop computer systems – and have the ability necessities to match.
In order to energy their very own high-end laptops, Eurocom has developed a reasonably uncommon 780W AC adapter for high-performance laptops. Intended to energy probably the most highly effective of highly effective laptops, their newest energy adapter can provide over three-quarters of a kilowatt of DC energy; a desktop-like wattage for a desktop-like gadget. It’s a laptop computer energy adapter that’s distinctive in its scale, and with some room to scale up even additional.
| Eurocom 780W AC Adapter Power specs |
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| RAIL | +20V |
| MAX OUTPUT | 39A |
| 780W | |
| DIMENSIONS | 325 x 110 x 40mm, 1.38kg |
| AC INPUT | 90 – 264 VAC, 50 – 60 Hz |
| MSRP | PSU: $299, Cable: $129+ |
Eurocom has supplied this adapter for a couple of years now. But it’s taken on a brand new life as extra laptops have been launched that use such a big adapter (or two smaller 300W-ish energy adapters). And, critically, Eurocom has made extra DC cable/connector units for different manufactuers’ laptops, considerably growing the variety of programs it’s appropriate with. Currently, Eurocom provides DC cables for the next laptops:
- Alienware M17x M18x; 1x DC Cable ; w/ barrel AW connector; 193cm/6.4ft
- Alienware AREA 51m; 1x DC Cable + Splitter Box w/ 2x barrel AW connectors; 152cm/5ft
- ASUS ROG G18 Strix; GX501V; GM501; GM501GM; GX531GM; 1x DC Cable; w/ barrel ROG connector
- ASUS G703GX, GZ700GX; 1x DC Cable w/ 2x ROG barrel connectors; 152cm/5ft
- CLEVO, OriginPC, Sager, XMG, EUROCOM laptops; 1x DC Cable; w/ 4-pin spherical connector; 182cm / 6ft
- CLEVO X370SNx; 1x DC Cable; w/ sq. connector; 120cm / 3.8ft
- CLEVO X170SM/X170KM; 1x DC Cable; w/ twin sq. connectors; 152cm / 5ft
- Dell Precision 7720/7710; 1x DC Cable; w/ barrel Dell connector; 120cm / 3.8ft
- MSI GE76, GT76, GT77, GE78HX Raider, Titan 18HX 1x DC Cable; w/ single sq. connector; 120cm / 3.8ft
- MSI laptops & MSI Trident AS Gaming Desktops; 1x DC Cable; w/ 4-pin spherical connector; 182cm / 6ft
The Eurocom 780W AC Adapter
Externally, the Eurocom 780W AC adapter seems like a hybrid between a PC PSU and a laptop computer adapter. It is formed like an outsized laptop computer AC adapter however has a metallic physique and cooling vents/followers. Eurocom advertises that it weighs “only 1.34kg”, which is the load of a complete 14-inch laptop computer by comparability, however is comparatively light-weight for a PSU with that form of energy output. The firm brand is debossed throughout the highest aspect of the adapter, with 4 spherical anti-slip pads discovered at its backside. Care must be taken whereas shifting it round as a result of the metallic edges and weight can spell hassle for wood surfaces.
Eurocom put in a small data show on the AC…
