17th March 2017, 11:31 PM
Wait, you actually WANT the brick in the middle of the cable? That's been a constant annoyance for me! The ideal solution is putting the power converter in the system itself (the N64 had the best possible solution, being both easily replacable and also stuck right on the system), but failing that, I MUCH prefer it be at the outlet than as some unwieldy blob right in the middle of the cable I have to somehow manage. When the thing is halfway on the cable, well, where am I supposed to stick it if I have the power cable running up the length of an entertainment center? Sometimes I might get lucky and there will be a small shelf or something I can "rest" that section of the brick on, but mostly it just end up pulling down while dangling from nowhere. UNACCEPTABLE!
I was pretty happy to see their new system had a much easier to manage power solution. If you have older power strips, it can be annoying. Newer ones tend to have all the outlets facing perpendicular to the strip though, with decent spacing, so you shouldn't have any need of breakout cables. Also, you really should be updating your power strips every decade or so anyway. The circuit breakers in power strips degrade over time, and anything older than that is not really any good for actually saving your equipment from a surge.
Anyway, there's a different of opinion for ya. I HATE "middle of the cable" power bricks. I can't imagine how you handle those, unless you just keep all your consoles in a pile on the floor. Oh wait...
I was pretty happy to see their new system had a much easier to manage power solution. If you have older power strips, it can be annoying. Newer ones tend to have all the outlets facing perpendicular to the strip though, with decent spacing, so you shouldn't have any need of breakout cables. Also, you really should be updating your power strips every decade or so anyway. The circuit breakers in power strips degrade over time, and anything older than that is not really any good for actually saving your equipment from a surge.
Anyway, there's a different of opinion for ya. I HATE "middle of the cable" power bricks. I can't imagine how you handle those, unless you just keep all your consoles in a pile on the floor. Oh wait...
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)