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thewayneAnd both times in the same manner, through sheer dumb luck and clutziness.
I just happened to have my feet in the wrong place at the wrong time, and one foot held down one end of the cord, the other foot was somehow wrapped around said cord, attempt to walk and *TWANG* and internal wires are broken.
They retail for about $80ish each.
I was able to get one replaced for free when I was in Phoenix three(?) weeks ago, I just happened to be in the store on the same day that the iPhone 8 released and had an excellent conversation with a salesdude and a customer extolling the Apple TV: the woman was wanting to get rid of her cable TV subscription and I was in the process of getting rid of my satellite subscription (it went dark today), and I bought a couple of MagSafe adapters, so I think the guy took pity on me.
I have a feeling that few laptop power adapters would hold up to that sort of sudden tension, and I absolutely love the MagSafe adapter. As a rule, if you had a Mac laptop on a desk and someone's foot caught in the cord as they walked by, the adapter would pop off the laptop and no damage would be done: wonderfully magnetically coupled. Brilliant design. And the electronics INSIDE the adapter are even more brilliant: it's a switching power supply that talks to the laptop and won't power up, doing a voltage ramp-up, until the laptop confirms a good connection and the battery is in a good state! If there's a problem with the battery, the laptop won't let it charge! Just amazing.
But to break two in a month? The worst thing is that I have three adapters right now. One brand-new that hadn't been taken out of my backpack, one with a self-destructing rubber coating, and one without a self-destructing rubber coating. Guess which one I broke? Well, it wasn't the new one, as it hadn't been taken out of my backpack. And it wasn't the one with the rotting rubber coating.
Must not be my month to stop sniffing glue.
If it wasn't for bad luck....
I just happened to have my feet in the wrong place at the wrong time, and one foot held down one end of the cord, the other foot was somehow wrapped around said cord, attempt to walk and *TWANG* and internal wires are broken.
They retail for about $80ish each.
I was able to get one replaced for free when I was in Phoenix three(?) weeks ago, I just happened to be in the store on the same day that the iPhone 8 released and had an excellent conversation with a salesdude and a customer extolling the Apple TV: the woman was wanting to get rid of her cable TV subscription and I was in the process of getting rid of my satellite subscription (it went dark today), and I bought a couple of MagSafe adapters, so I think the guy took pity on me.
I have a feeling that few laptop power adapters would hold up to that sort of sudden tension, and I absolutely love the MagSafe adapter. As a rule, if you had a Mac laptop on a desk and someone's foot caught in the cord as they walked by, the adapter would pop off the laptop and no damage would be done: wonderfully magnetically coupled. Brilliant design. And the electronics INSIDE the adapter are even more brilliant: it's a switching power supply that talks to the laptop and won't power up, doing a voltage ramp-up, until the laptop confirms a good connection and the battery is in a good state! If there's a problem with the battery, the laptop won't let it charge! Just amazing.
But to break two in a month? The worst thing is that I have three adapters right now. One brand-new that hadn't been taken out of my backpack, one with a self-destructing rubber coating, and one without a self-destructing rubber coating. Guess which one I broke? Well, it wasn't the new one, as it hadn't been taken out of my backpack. And it wasn't the one with the rotting rubber coating.
Must not be my month to stop sniffing glue.
If it wasn't for bad luck....
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Date: 2017-10-11 10:28 am (UTC)Laptop power adapters are the second worst thing in IT, right behind printers and just ahead of display projectors.
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Date: 2017-10-11 04:55 pm (UTC)Our dogs aren't chewers much beyond what we give them to chew, and we don't have cats, so small blessings. I loved the fact that my wife and I both had 2011 MacBook Pros, I was able to sacrifice mine for a period of time when hers glitched, then the observatory got her a brand-new one last year. Now that everything is glued-in, you can't quickly swap the drive or replace the battery.
And I realize I may have given my wife bad information yesterday. One of her co-workers needs a new Mac laptop battery, and I can't remember if my wife said it was a '12 or '13. '12 was the last year before everything went glued-in.
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Date: 2017-10-11 05:06 pm (UTC)And yeah, my Air is a late 2013 model... no replacement batteries for me. So far though, it seems to be holding out pretty well.
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Date: 2017-10-11 05:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-10-11 05:36 pm (UTC)My desire is for three working adapters: one to live at my computer so I can back up laptops without issue, one to live in my backpack so I can just grab my laptop and go without having to pack up an adapter, and one to live plugged in in front of the couch/TV. I usually keep the one with the de-mylinated covering for my desktop as I don't want to leave bits of shredded plastic if I use my power supply in public. I guess I'll try another power supply swap when I'm in Phoenix for Thanksgiving.