You may recall that a few months back, Apple brought its legal guns to bear on Sanho: a company much loved by road warriors for their excellent line up of MacBook charging solutions. Apple's beef with the company was that Sanho's Hypermac external batteries utilized Apple's patented MagSafe technology without their permission. As Sanho also offers a number of other Apple-sanctioned peripherals that they feared they could lose the license to manufacture, the company immiediately bowed to Cupertino's order to cease and desist the production of Hypermac external batteries featuring the MagSafe connector that made the product so useful.

A few weeks ago, Sanho introduced a reworked version of their HyperMac battery, which instead of featuring a MagSafe connection, utilizes Apple's airline adapter. While this solution sidesteps the wrath of Apple's legal department, it was sadly not as elegant as the Hypermac's initial design. Fortunately, Sanho has stepped up to the plate once again, this time offering a solution that not only thumbs their nose at Apple's MagSafe bellyaching, but also offers MacBook users the opportunity to reclaim some of the on-the-go backup power glory that so many of us rely on to do our jobs on a regular basis. While the company can't legally sell us external batteries with MagSafe adapters baked into them, they can offer us conversion kits to convert the MagSafe power adapters we already own into a a device that will not only suck the juice out of a wall socket, but will also allow it to hook directly into a Hypermac battery. Joy!

According to Sanho, the conversion kits should be available to consumers by the end of January. 

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