ASUS AI Charge - Charge Your iPad or Android Tablet from Any USB Port Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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563 words · ~2 min read
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welcome to the smartest thing that I had never heard of um actually here this is
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this is awesome because I happen to have a prop right here every motherboard manufacturer
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wants to talk about uh where is
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it oh look at that I picked the one motherboard box that happens to not have
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it on it but either way every motherboard manufacturer wants to talk
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about how they've got special high-powered USB ports that will allow
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you to charge your iPad or tablet or other high powerered device through your
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front USB but I came across a tool from ASUS that is compatible with all
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motherboards and PCs including notebooks called AI charge now this is not the
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same as onoff charge which allows you to charge devices using um certain USB
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ports uh usually it's one internal pin header um even when this PC is powered
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down but this one does work oh it says
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available to charge on any mode but it depends on blah blah blah Estates and
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yeah okay anyway this one has nothing to do with
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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
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do is install the app which is very very
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lightweight and takes about a second to
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install then um just for the sake of
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illustration I'm using an MSI Motherboard here guys so this is a big
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bang X power x58 motherboard this is before anyone started really
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implementing these onoff charge features and uh High powerered USB ports for
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charging tablets uh so I thought that it
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was hopeless and that I couldn't charge my tablet on my PC but it turns out that
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I can and I'll show you guys where to get it as well as see so there it goes
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it is charging it doesn't charge particularly fast because this isn't a
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high powerered USB or anything like that but it does charge which is all I really
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asked for so that I don't have to set up one of the wall warts and all you do is
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go to event. ASUS.com mv2010 aore
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charger and download it and it uses up
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let's see how much RAM does AI charger use AI charger oh it uses a whole 1.7
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Megs of RAM so you should be okay on that front and there is zero
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configuration in fact it just sits here in the task bar if you want to move a
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little bit closer it just sits here in the uh in the system tray rather not the
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taskbar you can't even click on it or open it or anything like that and just
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allows you to charge higher power devices when you plug them in so thank
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you for checking out this little Linus Tech tip on how to charge your tablet
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whether it's an iPad or whether it's an Android device off of any computer you
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want just using this simple little app and like huge thanks to ASUS for not
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artificially locking this down to their own products that is like major points
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in my book and uh I I hope you guys see
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it the same same way don't forget to subscribe