05-07-2015, 12:01 AM
The original T-shaped mag safe connector that came with my 2008 Macbook has just started to fail this month. I've never pulled it out by the cord like so many do with electrical cords.
I have to buy one somewhere soon or invest in a new laptop. ( the battery isn't lasting as long as it used to, and I have never been happy with the hard drive I replaced, and the OS is stuck at 10.6 )
I never saw the connector as a design flaw but a design compromise.
I doubt if Apple owners have had to replace broken logic boards or had to have the power jack repaired/replaced like so many with regular DC jacks do.
I lost count of how many PDQ and Lombard (bronze keyboard) laptops I tore apart to repair or replace the power jack when I had my shop.
What would have been nice would have been another identical jack on the brick end so just the cable could be replaced for $9.99.
Or so.
Probably ran some numbers and the phone support for dummies not capable of checking both ends being plugged in when their battery died cost too much.
:devil:
I have to buy one somewhere soon or invest in a new laptop. ( the battery isn't lasting as long as it used to, and I have never been happy with the hard drive I replaced, and the OS is stuck at 10.6 )
I never saw the connector as a design flaw but a design compromise.
I doubt if Apple owners have had to replace broken logic boards or had to have the power jack repaired/replaced like so many with regular DC jacks do.
I lost count of how many PDQ and Lombard (bronze keyboard) laptops I tore apart to repair or replace the power jack when I had my shop.
What would have been nice would have been another identical jack on the brick end so just the cable could be replaced for $9.99.
Or so.
Probably ran some numbers and the phone support for dummies not capable of checking both ends being plugged in when their battery died cost too much.
:devil: