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Yep, I think this is it. I also have 5 years old MBP with the original charger, and it's still fine. I'm not a very careful person, and in general never wrap
by metafunctor 11y ago
Yep, I think this is it. I also have 5 years old MBP with the original charger, and it's still fine. I'm not a very careful person, and in general never wrap cables in loops, just cram them in the bag. Sometimes my cables get impressively tangled, but I think I'm still actually saving time by skipping the meticulous wrapping every time I take off (at least twice per day).
So maybe if you stop taking "good care" of your charger, and stop wrapping it in a tight loop, it will actually last longer.
That said, a lot of people seem think you're supposed to wrap the cables. After all, the MBP charger has built-in hooks for exactly that purpose. The charger is badly designed if wrapping the cable around the provided hooks causes it fray very quickly.
- jschwartzi 11y agoIf they did usability testing, then the first thing they probably did was train the sample users. It's possible that fixed the test so that they never see the use case we're describing.
- bigiain 11y agoProbably not even "fixed the test", it might be something as innocuous as "Steve always walked around with the cables just looped up, not wrapped around the hooks", so that's what everybody else in the "sample users" group did too.
- mcv 11y agoI'm on the third charger for my 2011 Macbook Pro. One of the broken ones has a slightly frayed cord which I repaired with tape, and I don't think it's the wire that broke it (though I admit I can't be sure). The other one has a completely undamaged wire, and yet also stopped working. I really think it's the internals that are too fragile.