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The macbook still electrocutes you when it's plugged in since the grounding is all fucked up. This is still a problem: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/396

The macbook still electrocutes you when it's plugged in since the grounding is all fucked up. This is still a problem: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3969131 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3969131 https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/macbook-pro-giving-me-electric-shock.1625275/ https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/macbook-pro-giving-me-e... https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/10545/is-it-bad-that-my-macbook-air-is-passing-me-electricity https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/10545/is-it-bad-th...

switch007 6y ago
Every Apple device I've owned has done this (iPad, iPhone, MacBook) :/
- BluePen7 6y ago
  According to the forum posts, it's happening to everyone who uses the default plug, the extension that comes with a 3 pin plug resolves the issue. I have one short and one long cable, and am only just now realizing the issue. I'd simply assumed the short one was a fake I'd gotten. Can't speak to why your iPhone and iPad do the same thing, I've experienced it when using sketchy cheap lightning cables or wall adapters (including ghost touching), but not when using better built stuff (like AmazonBasics or Anker).
  - vbezhenar 6y ago
    That's assuming that your house have grounded sockets. My house does not and most of old houses in my country are the same, only new houses have ground.
gattilorenz 6y ago
That's some... creative usage of the verb "electrocute", which implies death. That said, I did feel the electric current when the 2012MBP was not grounded, but the 2017 model does not have the same problem.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 6y ago
  When people tell me they were electrocuted I say, "oh, so you died?"
  - saberience 6y ago
    Language changes and evolves over time, this is normal and natural. Just because "elecrocuted" at one time only meant died from electricity, it doesn't mean it can't mean now that one simply got a jolt and didn't die. Or do you still think "Google" just means a big number? Do you "literally" means "exactly" or can also be used to show strong feeling or emphasis.
    - 2OEH8eoCRo0 6y ago
      I know, I do it to be cheeky. Google doesn't mean big number, do you mean googol?
saagarjha 6y ago
More specifically, you're using the non-grounded plug rather than a grounded one. Since the laptop is metal, it passes it to you and to the ground instead of through the dedicated circuit.
- fnord123 6y ago
  >More specifically, you're using the non-grounded plug rather than a grounded one Yes, the one that comes with extremely expensive European 2019 16" Macbook Pro is not grounded. I'm not sure they sell the grounded lead anymore. But maybe I should charge my work macbook with my personal xps 13 charger which is grounded (yay usb-c!)
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muro 6y ago
I hate that so much. Physical punishment for using a laptop.
hackerbee 6y ago
Not in EU with a grounded plug.
DenisM 6y ago
>This is still a problem: The three posts you provided are from 2012, 2013, and 2011. So is it really still a problem?
- bla3 6y ago
  I still feel minor electric shocks with my 2016 MBP if I charge it with my ThinkPad power plug and touch the chassis.
  - DenisM 6y ago
    Are you in Europe perchance? I have a feeling that wiring in the EU is more prone to sparks than in the US, so maybe grounding behaves differently as well, due to some sort of variation in building and wiring codes.
    - bla3 6y ago
      No, live in the US.

switch007 6y ago

Every Apple device I've owned has done this (iPad, iPhone, MacBook) :/

BluePen7 6y ago
According to the forum posts, it's happening to everyone who uses the default plug, the extension that comes with a 3 pin plug resolves the issue. I have one short and one long cable, and am only just now realizing the issue. I'd simply assumed the short one was a fake I'd gotten. Can't speak to why your iPhone and iPad do the same thing, I've experienced it when using sketchy cheap lightning cables or wall adapters (including ghost touching), but not when using better built stuff (like AmazonBasics or Anker).
- vbezhenar 6y ago
  That's assuming that your house have grounded sockets. My house does not and most of old houses in my country are the same, only new houses have ground.

gattilorenz 6y ago

That's some... creative usage of the verb "electrocute", which implies death. That said, I did feel the electric current when the 2012MBP was not grounded, but the 2017 model does not have the same problem.

2OEH8eoCRo0 6y ago
When people tell me they were electrocuted I say, "oh, so you died?"
- saberience 6y ago
  Language changes and evolves over time, this is normal and natural. Just because "elecrocuted" at one time only meant died from electricity, it doesn't mean it can't mean now that one simply got a jolt and didn't die. Or do you still think "Google" just means a big number? Do you "literally" means "exactly" or can also be used to show strong feeling or emphasis.
  - 2OEH8eoCRo0 6y ago
    I know, I do it to be cheeky. Google doesn't mean big number, do you mean googol?

saagarjha 6y ago

More specifically, you're using the non-grounded plug rather than a grounded one. Since the laptop is metal, it passes it to you and to the ground instead of through the dedicated circuit.

fnord123 6y ago
>More specifically, you're using the non-grounded plug rather than a grounded one Yes, the one that comes with extremely expensive European 2019 16" Macbook Pro is not grounded. I'm not sure they sell the grounded lead anymore. But maybe I should charge my work macbook with my personal xps 13 charger which is grounded (yay usb-c!)
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muro 6y ago

I hate that so much. Physical punishment for using a laptop.

hackerbee 6y ago

Not in EU with a grounded plug.

DenisM 6y ago

>This is still a problem: The three posts you provided are from 2012, 2013, and 2011. So is it really still a problem?

bla3 6y ago
I still feel minor electric shocks with my 2016 MBP if I charge it with my ThinkPad power plug and touch the chassis.
- DenisM 6y ago
  Are you in Europe perchance? I have a feeling that wiring in the EU is more prone to sparks than in the US, so maybe grounding behaves differently as well, due to some sort of variation in building and wiring codes.
  - bla3 6y ago
    No, live in the US.