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Magplug 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
by mrybczyn 7y ago
Magplug 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 7y 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 7y ago> too thick Exactly. And my life improved so much since I reduced the backpack carrying my laptop by 1mm...
- moogly 7y 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.