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Dropping the magnetic power cord connector is a major issue for me, but otherwise I wholeheartedly agree.
by lostmyoldone 8y ago
Dropping the magnetic power cord connector is a major issue for me, but otherwise I wholeheartedly agree.
- mrybczyn 8y agoMagplug charging is magical! Easily the best contribution to computer design from Apple, ever. And then it gets dropped... I wonder if the poor hardware has to do with increasingly outsourced R&D. I mean, everyone at Apple is rich, why should they bother with all the hard details ...
- rootlocus 8y agoI don't have any sources for this, but I always assumed they dropped the magplug because it was too thick and they wanted to use usb-c exclusively.
- alexis_fr 8y ago> too thick Exactly. And my life improved so much since I reduced the backpack carrying my laptop by 1mm...
- moogly 8y agoWhilst Apple was the first company to bring magnetically coupled power cabling to computers with MagSafe, the idea/design wasn't original; it's been a common design for kitchen appliances in the Japanese market since the year ~2000.
- fiftyfifty 8y agoThe cool thing with USB-C on the Pros is you can charge from any of the USB-C plugs, on both sides! On my old Mac the magsafe plug always seemed to be on the wrong side no matter where I seemed to be (Murphy's law). I wore out multiple mag safe cables from being bent too sharply around to the opposite side of the laptop where the nearest plug to my desk, bed, seat in the airport always seemed to be. Then there is the dream, that one day, one day, we might have a single charging cable for all of our devices; laptop, phone, tablet etc. Ironically Apple is the one preventing that day from being a reality right now by hanging on to the lightening connector on the iPhone. I would gladly give up magsafe for USB-C to become the one true connector and charger.
- Tempest1981 8y agoLong ago, I had a Dell laptop with ports on the back. Never an issue, cables out of the way, out of sight.