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After 30 years of buying Apple, I gave up when it became common for the powerbooks to subject you to DC in the wrists, kill perfectly serviceable panasonic dvd
by poetaster 5y ago
After 30 years of buying Apple, I gave up when it became common for the powerbooks to subject you to DC in the wrists, kill perfectly serviceable panasonic dvd drives and send HDs to nirvana on the clock. The number of recovery jobs I had to run for musicians and filmmakers between 2003 and 2010 was hair raising. Never again. My mac classic runs just fine.
- GekkePrutser 5y agoIt's not DC actually, it's leaking AC. I think the shielding of the power adaptor picks up some induction (or capacitance?) and you can feel that when you brush over it with your hand. If you use a grounded lead (the 3-prong cable that comes with the adaptor instead of the 2-prong duckhead) it doesn't happen. Because the voltage that will flow to ground and won't build up. You can indeed feel it very clearly because it makes the surface feel rough and tickly. I'm also sensitive to it. A lot of computers do this, my PC-XT did this back in the 80s. But Apple is one of the few with an all metal case. A lot of other makes have metal but it's usually just a sheet and not connected to the actual ground. What I hate about Apple's current laptops is the sharp edges that cut into my wrists, and the keyboards that are too shallow to have real feedback. They seem made more to please the eyes, not the hands.