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Luckily I purchased the extended warranty so even if I have to replace it every year, apple will do it for free the first 3 years.But it puzzles me why they can't create a better adaptor, especially at this price. I love apple and I will keep apple products even though this adapter creates quite a problem. I didn't know, until I replaced mine, how common the problem was. Which is why I gave it two stars: high price and will only last about 1 year. But, you don't have any other choices right now so you have to just bight the bullet or leave apple macbooks alone.If you purchase from amazon you will get a genuine apple adaptor, i can't say the same from any storefront--I always treat them as buyer beware.
This is a great price for a refurbished macbook adapter. After I lost mine on a trip I needed to replace it quickly, this was the ideal solution.
I say soon because the wires on this one are fraying near the MagSafe connector. Eventually, the heat in the contacts can cause melting of the case or burned fingers. I recommend you read customer feedback on the Apple web site. We may have been a little harsh with the first MagSafe Power Module, I don't think so. The design is flawed, unreliable and dangerous. The only thing worse is the 85W MacBook Pro Adapter. I will soon be on my 3rd genuine Apple MagSafe 60W Power Adapter. The wire jacket protruding from the connector case is insufficiently anchored to prevent the jacket from pulling away from the connector body, exposing the wires inside and eliminating whatever benefit the strain relief was providing.
On the second MagSafe Power Module we have followed the recommended procedure with diligence.I am very disappointed in this product and Apple Corporation as a result. The second design failure is the strain relief, or lack thereof. The failures were identified soon after this was introduced and there has been no redesign to correct the flaws. The spring pins lose their contact force over time due to annealing from the flow of current through them. I was heartened to see a lawsuit has been filed against Apple in California over the MagSafe Power Adapter asking for class action status. By this I mean we weren't always following the instructions on the Apple web site, which we only found AFTER the first module failed, to flick the MagSafe connector off the computer rather than pulling away or holding onto the cord.
There are two major design defects, both in the connector. As they decrease in force the current flow is forced to increase to compensate for the increase in contact resistance increasing the rate at which the annealing occurs. We were especially frustrated to have it fail while we were on vacation and unable to find anywhere to purchase a replacement nearby. Couple this with the design flaw that causes the roller on the Apple mouse to fail at infancy and you get very frustrated customers and I am one of them.
Best buy sells this charger for $79. I bought it here for $50 plus the shipping was quick (within a few days) and nicely packaged. My charger gets pretty heavy use because I am a student and it has worked properly and appears to be authentic.
I mean, what is this thing really. Now we've bought a third and guess what, the adapter, our second, died.I was once a low-level IT guy who handled lease returns at a major ad agency which included a long list of laptops going back from the tail end of the Lombards, through the titaniums and then the first generation of intel MacBooks before I moved on. Hours on the phone and at the store every single time. The second battery, which was used, by the way (their fault that the first one died due to a power management issue but whatever, they still replaced with a used battery), the second battery was dead in a week.
Sure they're pretty. Or any apple purchase, ever. I probably even like the OS better. Not to mention every generation seemed to get harder and harder to service with more plates and weird screw-types to remove just to swap out some defective RAM, which was also not as uncommon of a problem as it probably should have been for what we were paying for the silly things.Anyway, a couple years of school and a career change later, I just got a job where the guys I work with have the new generation MacBooks and it looks like Apple finally pulled their head out of their butts in regards to quality and ease of self-servicing but I'll be waiting for reliable reports from non-Mac-obsessed fankids before I ever consider another Mac laptop purchase for at least a year or two. At that point the laptop became plug-in only because we couldn't afford all this crap. And this at the flagship Chicago store no less.
I'm already pissed after one wasted trip and they couldn't see that the more they pissed me off the less likely I was to make an impulse buy. 3 Times people. I heard they changed that policy. They had me running back and forth between the store and the phone line before I finally climbed the manager ladder to demand a mail swap (which they can do no problem if you ask the right person for it) because the store kept saying they had spare batteries but then didn't have any when I got there. My fiancee's next laptop will be a PC and my next Mac will likely be a used iMac for testing because it is completely absurd to pay that much for a Mac tower with the kind of PC you could build on your own for that much money.
And that was just the first battery. I've got AC adapters for cheap toys bought in the '80s that still work just fine. Cords broke. It's hard to keep track because we've gone through at least three batteries now too and in spite of our Apple Care warranty, service was exceptionally bad. But WTF is wrong with these Appletards that they kept paying as much as they did for junk.You can't replace you own iPod battery. Seriously. I don't care.
It's still too expensive for an MP3 player and Apple has clearly established what they think of me, their customer which is why I resent having to buy yet another one of these overpriced POS wall adapters. Apple's can't seem to last 6 months and the latest one doesn't have a mark or a scratch on it. One of the guys there said "They like to send you to the store." Wow. It just stopped charging which means the battery's probably going to be dead, permanently, when we can afford to replace the.@#$ing charger.So yes, Apple, you reap what you sew. To be fair, creatives tend to be harder on their machines but the sheer volume of damaged goods we had to pay for on the lease returns was staggering. Batteries failed, more than half the optical drives totally failed or were damaged because they kept insisting on putting the optical drives where people rest their hands in spite of them crapping out quite regularly. It's a freaking AC adapter.
The new stuff might look good but I'm going to be steering clear of your overpriced hardware until this generation has been kicking it for a year or two because I've had quite enough BS and expense from you people.
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