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Pretty sad to see MagSafe go. It's saved my laptop's life many times before. Also, it's crazy that none of the adapters has more than one non-C USB port.
by mef 12y ago
Pretty sad to see MagSafe go. It's saved my laptop's life many times before.
Also, it's crazy that none of the adapters has more than one non-C USB port.
- pkulak 12y agoJust hook a hub up to the single port. Super elegant!
- UnoriginalGuy 12y agoIt might be possible, theoretically, to build a breakaway adapter for USB-C. Maybe further downstream on the cable itself, so the USB-C plug remains in but the cable comes away and can be re-connected. The ONLY problem with this is safety. USB-C can easily kill, so any breakaway would need to cut power reliably.
- mrob 12y agoUSB type C supports up to 20V DC for power delivery. It certainly can't "easily" kill. Assuming an unusually low 300ohm internal resistance, and electrodes piercing the skin and positioned such that current flows through the heart, that's still only 67mA. That's potentially lethal with AC, but well below any published threshold I can find for DC. Despite rumors of deaths from 9V DC with electrodes piercing the skin I'm unable to find any officially documented deaths from such low DC voltages.