Really could've used a MagSafe plug today
Tuesday 7 March 2006 - Filed under mac
I don’t remember, but I must have just shot off the couch. You see, when I caught the power cord of my Powerbook in between my toes, there was enough velocity to pull the laptop halfway across the table. It punted my full coffee mug into the hallway, contents flying everywhere.
The laptop caught some coffee, but avoided the full soaking that the rest of the table got, with the neat trick of being off the table by the time most of the coffee hit.
I’m just really glad that my carpet is brown right now.
Anyone else vote for a MagSafe retrofit accessory? I’d drop $29.95 for sure.
2006-03-07 » mike
7 March 2006 @ 5:16 pm
Surely it’s a lesser evil to have magsafe, but ars technica definitely highlighted it comes out EASY (too easy)… Better to increase the loadcycles and buy batteries more frequently then destroy your laptop. Smells like rev. a.
7 March 2006 @ 5:44 pm
I didn’t know about its problems coming out too easy, but I agree – that’s a tradeoff I’d happily make. I really think I’m about six months older after this morning.
Besides, with the current design, at least a revision C, I’ll sometimes get a low-battery notice when plugged in because the plug has worked its way slightly loose, and although still in, wasn’t charging anymore.
7 March 2006 @ 7:19 pm
Forget 29.94; I’d pay the price of a new power adapter. Every time one of the kids trips over my PowerBook cord I get a few more gray hairs…and the socket gets a little bit looser.
They seem surprisingly liquid-resistant, though. Mine was about a week old when I spilled an Americano on it, and my younger son tipped some Fat Bastard Scotch ale into the keyboard a couple of months ago. I’m not optimistic about its life expectancy, but it still works fine.
7 March 2006 @ 7:26 pm
Adam, that’s lucky – I’m terrified of beer spills onto electronics. I lost my nice Canon digital camera to beer – the camera shop guy described it as a ‘sticky brown substance’…
13 March 2006 @ 6:35 pm
MagSafe is a god send. I managed to rip out an older power book such that the wire actually separated from the plug, leaving it behind in my computer. The MagSafe connector on my MacBook has now been thoroughly tested by a puppy, my five year old son and, worst of all, me. Work beautifully.
And it doesn’t fall out terribly easy, either.
I recently dumped a full glass of water through my powerbook while in a lounge. “GASP! Oh My God! Your computer!”. Uh, no — it is just water. Rip the power out, drain it, let it dry… No problem.
Now, a full gin&tonic with a heavy twist of lime is a fatally different matter entirely. And it was my wife’s computer, too. New aluminum powerbook. Two days before a week long set of presentations. By the end of the week, the keys were so stiff that the initial press had to be quite violent to break ‘em loose.
And, yet, she is still with me…