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Yup. When traveling abroad in a developing nation it turns out no one bothers to ground their power, so my macbooks (or my friend's laptop) always shocks me if

Yup. When traveling abroad in a developing nation it turns out no one bothers to ground their power, so my macbooks (or my friend's laptop) always shocks me if I touch it while plugging in. You kinda taste iron if you keep touching it, but all the locals are used to it.

cesarb 3y ago
The only laptops I've seen doing that are Apple laptops, for some reason other laptop brands do not seem to have that problem.
- hammock 3y ago
  It's the metal case. Most PCs are plastic
- JCharante 3y ago
  it's happened on my friend's laptop and other non-macs laptops too
wkat4242 3y ago
In developed countries they do the same if you use the duck head on the adaptor instead of the cable with the grounded connector sadly. And yes it's because of the metal case. It's not the actual mains you're connected to though, just some induction on the PSU shielding.