welcome to the smartest thing that I had never heard of um actually here this is
this is awesome because I happen to have a prop right here every motherboard manufacturer
wants to talk about uh where is
it oh look at that I picked the one motherboard box that happens to not have
it on it but either way every motherboard manufacturer wants to talk
about how they've got special high-powered USB ports that will allow
you to charge your iPad or tablet or other high powerered device through your
front USB but I came across a tool from ASUS that is compatible with all
motherboards and PCs including notebooks called AI charge now this is not the
same as onoff charge which allows you to charge devices using um certain USB
ports uh usually it's one internal pin header um even when this PC is powered
down but this one does work oh it says
available to charge on any mode but it depends on blah blah blah Estates and
yeah okay anyway this one has nothing to do with
what kind of USB port nothing to do with what kind of motherboard or even what kind of system you have all you have to
do is install the app which is very very
lightweight and takes about a second to
install then um just for the sake of
illustration I'm using an MSI Motherboard here guys so this is a big
bang X power x58 motherboard this is before anyone started really
implementing these onoff charge features and uh High powerered USB ports for
charging tablets uh so I thought that it
was hopeless and that I couldn't charge my tablet on my PC but it turns out that
I can and I'll show you guys where to get it as well as see so there it goes
it is charging it doesn't charge particularly fast because this isn't a
high powerered USB or anything like that but it does charge which is all I really
asked for so that I don't have to set up one of the wall warts and all you do is
go to event. ASUS.com mv2010 aore
charger and download it and it uses up
let's see how much RAM does AI charger use AI charger oh it uses a whole 1.7
Megs of RAM so you should be okay on that front and there is zero
configuration in fact it just sits here in the task bar if you want to move a
little bit closer it just sits here in the uh in the system tray rather not the
taskbar you can't even click on it or open it or anything like that and just
allows you to charge higher power devices when you plug them in so thank
you for checking out this little Linus Tech tip on how to charge your tablet
whether it's an iPad or whether it's an Android device off of any computer you
want just using this simple little app and like huge thanks to ASUS for not
artificially locking this down to their own products that is like major points
in my book and uh I I hope you guys see
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