Macbook charger teardown: surprising complexity inside Apple's power adapter

Re:Macbook charger teardown: surprising complexity inside Ap... by jsmith0295 on Wednesday November 25, 2015 @01:59PM (#10628865)

I've found it hardly happens at all if you avoid wrapping the cable. I just toss mine in my bag, and it's hardly worn at all.

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Re:Macbook charger teardown: surprising complexity inside Ap... by pshc on Wednesday November 25, 2015 @02:04PM (#10628895)

Yeah. I do wind mine, but I leave a length of loose cable first to avoid applying tension where the cable enters the brick. I believe the fraying happens when people pull laterally on the strain relief. (It's still Apple's fault, of course.)

See: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201600

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Re:Macbook charger teardown: surprising complexity inside Ap... by brazzledazzle on Wednesday November 25, 2015 @03:38PM (#10629522)

I do the same. But I did have one fray at the end that plugs into the Mac once, so failures do happen.

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