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Re:The increasingly long lives of old Macs by nickhalfasleep on Monday August 17, 2015 @12:07PM (#10073954)
One of the reasons I think is the magsafe connectors. I have recycled a stack of other laptops where the power port (and PCB underneath) were ground up from the inherit abuse and prybar leverage of a traditional connector.
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Re:The increasingly long lives of old Macs by alistairSH on Monday August 17, 2015 @12:18PM (#10074052)
I hate that they ditched it on the new 12". Seems like a step back. With a personal laptop that lives in the living room and dogs in the house, the MagSafe has saved many a fall from the sofa or side-table onto the ground.
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Re:The increasingly long lives of old Macs by cptskippy on Monday August 17, 2015 @01:22PM (#10074604)
It didn't save my wife's from being yanked on the floor. The newer Airs are so light that the force to pull them off some surfaces is less than what's required to break the magsafe connection.
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