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Recently bought a Macbook Pro Retina (3 months ago), the charging cable is already dying and the ethernet - usb adapter they provide is utter crap. Each of thos
by AvenueIngres 10y ago
Recently bought a Macbook Pro Retina (3 months ago), the charging cable is already dying and the ethernet - usb adapter they provide is utter crap. Each of those cost an arm and honestly, maintenance costs isn't something I factored in when I bought this 1800$ laptop.
All around, the laptop is OK but not great. That experience really contrasts the very positive one I had five years ago. What went wrong? How can basic manufacturing quality tank this hard in such a small timeframe? Did they fire the wrong guy?
- toyg 10y ago> Did they fire the wrong guy? No, the wrong guy died.
- ploxiln 10y agoI've used a few usb ethernet adapters over the years, and the most reliable and performant one in my experience is the StarTech USB31000S which is based on the ASIX AX88179. It's been around for a few years so the driver for it is included in all recent linux distros, and you can download surprisingly up-to-date and maintained drivers for OS X and windows from the chip manufacturer's website: http://www.asix.com.tw/products.php?op=pItemdetail&PItemID=131;71;112&PLine=71 http://www.asix.com.tw/products.php?op=pItemdetail&PItemID=1... I use it mostly with OS X. I've actually bought about 5 of them, because some coworkers had problems that turned out to be caused by flaky usb ethernet adapters, and it was well worth my debugging time to get them better (but still cheap!) hardware.
- charlesism 10y ago> charging cable is already dying ... How can basic manufacturing quality tank this hard in such a small timeframe? You just lucked out with the original adapter. The cables are delicate now, but the original version was actually worse. Since so many customers broke them, Apple revised the design with a slightly longer piece of rubber shielding.