Friday, February 4, 2011

HyperMac offers DIY solutions after Apple lawsuit

Filed under: Accessories, Appleby Kelly Hodgkins (RSS feed) on Jan 10th, 2011 9:00 AMHyperMac portable battery system HyperMac portable charging systems are back to the revamped product line, which is a violation of Apple's patents on the market. HyperMac is facing a patent lawsuit over the company's systems from Apple, the Apple used in cables, MagSafe and 30-pin connectors. The company stopped selling the infringing cables, Nov. 2, at the same time, when it produces a line of HyperJuice batteries. Without cables to connect your laptop batteries, however, were more or less useless.

HyperMac, Sanho Corporation, behind the company was back in CES 2011 and showed two new DIY cable systems that skirt Apple's patents. One system uses the Apple MagSafe Airline adapter, and a special plug HyperMac battery supplied by daisy chain HyperJuice Apple's laptop. Though easy to implement, this Setup on the powers of the Apple notebook but not recharge.

The second solution, but not the details of the Ars, HyperMac's website yet, as the case may be, requires the user to the power supply cable splice their MacBook. HyperMac provides appropriate connectors allows users to paste this modified cable HyperJuice battery or AC power adapter for the original Apple. These changes require a little technical skill, and to require anything to be closed by soldering. Although not as easy as the airline adapter method, this latter solution to offer users the opportunity to charge the battery HyperJuice battery on the road.

[Via Ars Technica]


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