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The standard barrel connector protects against short-circuiting with a simple plastic ring. The magsafe connector requires a fucking microcontroller.
by farva 10y ago
The standard barrel connector protects against short-circuiting with a simple plastic ring. The magsafe connector requires a fucking microcontroller.
- radicalbyte 10y agoThe standard connectors have a horrible tendency to break through mechanical wear after a few years. On the laptop side, not the charger side. They also take the laptop with them then pulled by a kid or fell over on. If there's a problem with the MagSafe, it's that the cable itself breaks after 12-18 months due to lack of stress relief, requiring an expensive replacement and inspiring people to buy $15 euro fire starters. Complain about Apple being too cheap to hire some proper engineers to build the cable, not the brilliantly designed connector.
- farva 10y agoI've repaired dozens of laptops and the one thing the broken power connectors had in common was being soldered directly to the motherboard instead of using a separate assembly.