Mobile Battery

 I've looked at a variety of mobile batteries with the intended purpose of using them to charge my laptop & other electronics.

 Brunton has two  choices

 -impel:          145W/38oz
 -sustain:        73W/21oz

 Tekkeon produces three batteries that are quite similar to each other.

 -MP3450i:    58W/15.9 oz
 -MP3450:     50W/15.3 oz
 -MP3750:     50W/15.4 oz

Energizer/XPal also produces two batteries, although I can't see any practical way of using them with solar since they require 19V input.

-XP18000:     90W/17.5oz
-XP8000:       40W/7.9oz


 The XP8000 for my purpose is pretty ideal weigh wise, but I haven't seen any method to boost solar panel voltage up to the 19V it requires.


 Tekkeon produces a solar charging adapter, which you can use to boost the voltage off the solar panel as it comes into the battery, but it only boosts it to the 12V required by Tekkeon's battery.

  I've decided to go with the Tekkeon MP3450i, it is heavier than I'd like, but Tekkeon makes it pretty desirable with their solar adapter.

 A really helpful dude named Graham, from Modern Outpost helped me figure out alot of this stuff.

   Another big reason I went with the Tekkeon: Modern Outpost produces an adapter that lets me connect my Tekkeon to my Macbook.

Strange as it may seem, Apple has not seen fit to release a DC adapter for the Macbook.  The only thing they offer is a Airline adapter, but this adapter is total fail as it cannot charge the laptop(it will only power it).