Genuine Microsoft Surface Pro PSU - Model 1706 - Any poor sod needs a spare?

[rwillett]

No longer needed as work has given me a nice new HP laptop. This was my spare travel PSU.

 

Its the 65W 1706 model, comes with the cloverleaf lead and UK plug and the stupid Microsoft dedicated power connector rather than the USB-C that the rest of the world uses, apart from Apple and Microsoft. There is a special place in hell reserved for the executives tw*ts who thought they were being clever and generating revenue for their companies by using propriety connectors.

 

Sadly it works so I can't just fling it in recycling. It has a massive number of ports, no I'm lying, it has a single USB-A 2.0 port. You can connect a mouse, wow, just wow.

 

These are approx £11 on eBay new, I'll send it for the absolutely nothing simply to get get rid of it. Amazon has it for the extortionate price of £14.

 

Here's the Amazon link to it

 

https://amzn.eu/d/bsMPodm

 

If you need it, this means you have a MS Surface Pro and nothing I can say or do will make life any better for you. My suggestion is to change jobs for an employer that values you.

 

Rob

 

 

[synthaside]

I will actually take this if its still going , i've just done a Clean " FORCED " windows 11 install on my old Surface Pro 4 ( would be Chrome OS flex  if it didn't brick the touch screen )   Its only getting used for dinner table Iplayer / youtube duties at the moment  but it would be good to have a spare .

Drop me a PM

[rwillett]

Apologies, but I gave it away on Friday to a bloke in Chester.

 

Now these things are two a penny where I work. Let me check to see if there are any more lying around. They are classed as accessories and so aren't actually tracked even if they cost £250 (which the big version does cost).

 

Rob

[synthaside]

no worries , it's not super needed i figured it'd just be nice to have a second one to save me unplugging it 

[rwillett]

Thats exactly why I had it. Let me ask around... Some people have spares as they moved to HP, some silly sods staying on the surface pro.

 

Rob

[synthaside]

Must be the only thing miss about  working in our office  since going fully remote , Scrounging in the Waste electricals bin  , Pretty sure this old surface pro came from there too , but yes a 4 is a bit slow for actual office work these days .

So much great stuff used to get timed out or taken out of circulation due to mergers / policy change  , Non standard gear couldnt be refreshed  and we weren't allowed to sell it on as business had to prove it had been " ethically disposed of "  , / lots of forms stating it had been manually disposed of by one of the team.  The TPM Module fiasco had me fill by boots with I7 Thinkpads , which i'd rebuild for friends and family as chromebooks with either Flex , forced upgrade to Win 11 or Nix for the more adventurous. 

My Current home theatre projector used to live in the main boardroom ... but apparently " wasn't bright enough"   Translation  They wanted a 4k 100  inch telepresence screen like they had seen in another boardroom ,  one chromecast later and i've been using it as a smart projector for the last 3 years.

[rwillett]

I go into the office every few weeks or so, I've teams in Sheffield, Manchester and Croydon so regardless of where I work, I'm usually on a Teams call as somebody isn't in the location I'm in. 

 

We have a lot of older kit and I know full well there's cupboards full of older stuff like Surface Pro PSU's, It's just a case of finding them. 

 

I like old Thinkpads, I was at IBM for 15 years and they made great laptops, Even when they flogged it to Lenovo, they were still good laptops. The cases were thicker and made of better plastic. Not as stylish as the Dell's but a lot more robust. When we were out on site, we'd see Dell's and other laptops with duct tape holding things together like compartment lids, never had that with an old Thinkpad. Easy to change the keyboard over as well. The only downside was their love of DisplayPort over HDMI, they would not drop DP in favour of HDMI for far too long. 

 

Anyway, I have put the word out and am asking around for a PSU.

Rob