Charger Query

garlad

Hi,
Bought a Samsung x120. The charger is 19V 2.1A.
I have an old Samsung charger, 19V 3.5A.
Both have same polarity.
It fits into the x120, and the charge light comes on.
Just wondering if theres a danger to my pc of plugging this old higher amp charger in to it?
Seems to be conflicting answers elsewhere on the Interweb.
Cheers

x in the city

should be ok

the laptop will only draw as much current as needed, so it has more resources with this versus the 'recommended' one

if it was a higher voltage that would be a different issue.

just my 2c

Overheal

I wouldnt be the first one to advise it. While a laptop is probably much more intelligent than most tech, in the vast majority of devices if you doubled the amperage, you'd fry the ****in thing. Learned through hard experience.

Stick your finger in any exposed metal - like the headphone jack or the USB ports. Feel a ting or a pain? Had that with a piece of **** charger I got off ebay. Had no choice but to use it. But to be fair the motherboard in question has since been replaced for other reasons. for all i know it might have contributed to other issues though.

garlad

Thanks for the responses. Like most other threads on the web regarding this topic, there are conflicting answers.