MagSafe – the Last Straw?
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(The long-promised update. I had intended to take update photographs of the adaptor previously bitched about, but had no decent working camera for a while. Now I have camera and two adaptors worth a gripe, so here goes.)
This happened over the last 48 hours.
In 2013, after a long spell of financial difficulty during which it wasn’t an option, I replaced my laptop’s sadly deteriorated MagSafe [1] power adaptor. That adaptor (Nº2) went up on a high shelf in the interim. And the new adaptor (Nº4) was good. But early this year I noticed the onset of the same deterioration. I might have blogged about it all the way through, but the last few months have been intense . . .
The progressive deterioration whilst in normal use of the new (c.2011 and on) cable for these adaptors seems to go like this: