Ipad Battery Charging

[maurice594]

New to this Ipad thing, still trying to get my head around it. When I connect the ipad to my Laptop the Batt indicator show "not charging" I can only charge the Batt with the mains adaptor supplied.
My question is: can/should the Laptop charge the ipad Batt?? info would be appreciated.

[georgebourne]

you can only charge the Batt with the mains adaptor supplied.

[jimdollar]

The reason it wont charge from the USB socket is to do with low voltage or current, especially from Windows based computers, I think it works ok from Apple models. However you can get a piece of free software to put on your Windows computer which will overcome this, I use it a couple of times when we did not have our mains charger and it worked ok, just Google it.

[andy0pandy]

asus ai charger is the peace of software you need