subject: Spare laptop adapter can be a safety net [print this page] Of course, if you can educate your family members to use the charger at home and keep the laptop battery fully charged, so much the better, but it is always a good idea to have a contingency plan for those times when you really must get a particular piece of work done and it just so happens that your relative simply forgot to plug in and switch on. With a laptop power supply in each location where you use your laptop, such oversights on account of other people will no longer be a problem.