My son's new laptop uses a power adaptor with a very short lead and the adaptor is a huge brick. Almost anywhere we try to use the laptop, the kitchen table, breakfast table, dining room table, desks, the cable is a stretch and we have to place the huge brick adaptor (230 W) on the table near the laptop. This is very inconvenient. Even if we use a long mains lead it does not solve the problem of having the adaptor very close to the laptop.
I would like to extend the lead and was trying to find a male and female socket/plug to make an extension. However it is proving very hard. The lead ends in a female plug which is like this, but female
http://www.farnell.com/cad/1343760.pdfThe laptop has a male socket on it.
I have not been successful in finding the right plugs/socket/connectors in order to make an extension lead.
Short of cutting the existing lead and extending it this way, would anyone know where/how to get these weird connectors from?