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Apple has had the same problem for years. I dont understand why the companies dont want to use better cables/other than making lots of money on selling spare parts).
The idea of not bending the cable doesnt go well with the intended use of the device.
I was about to say the same thing, I used to work in an electronic store and I sold more chargers for MacBooks than for any other laptop, exactly for this reason.Quote:
Originally Posted by eviling
The Apple charger cable is hideously thin and always fails right after the strain relief boot.
While these Apple and MS chargers can do with improvements, I would though personal observation, put these failures down to operator error more than design fault. Put it this way, I have some friends who I wouldn't even lend even a MIL-STD-810G laptop to.
As I'm affected by this I've bothered to read all the info.
This is the standard figure of 8 cable. It didn't have enough strain relief built in because they were doing that design nonsense that you normally get from Apple.
The recall is something that can be replaced by a £2.50 cable on Amazon. This isn't like MBP power cables or similar of which I know no one who has used theirs daily for 2 years and not needed one £60 replacement!
Thick copper wire makes a huge difference to the price of a laptop, or course. Meanwhile, has apple still not fixed screengate or is that still rumbling on?