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

Re:Macbook charger teardown: surprising complexity inside Ap... by guelo on Wednesday November 25, 2015 @02:06PM (#10628909)

Nobody in the history of personal computers has been killed by a charger.

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Re:Macbook charger teardown: surprising complexity inside Ap... by kens on Wednesday November 25, 2015 @02:30PM (#10629060)

There are multiple reports of phone chargers killing people: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-07/14/c_1325400... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2950641/Woman-electr... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2671493/Woman-dies-e... http://shanghaiist.com/2015/03/15/girl_from_hebei_dies_after...

If you look inside cheap chargers (as I have), it's not surprising that they occasionally kill people.

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Re:Macbook charger teardown: surprising complexity inside Ap... by DanBC on Wednesday November 25, 2015 @02:14PM (#10628951)

You can't know that. You can't know that there haven't been house fires caused by a charger, for example.

Here's a recent house fire that killed five people, started by a phone charger.

http://metro.co.uk/2015/06/10/phone-charger-started-fire-tha...

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Re:Macbook charger teardown: surprising complexity inside Ap... by TazeTSchnitzel on Wednesday November 25, 2015 @02:15PM (#10628960)

I doubt that short circuits have never killed anyone. That's not the only way a charger could kill you: DanBC points out the risk of fire, which is also a possibility.

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