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

Re:Macbook charger teardown: surprising complexity inside Ap... by keithpeter on Wednesday November 25, 2015 @05:52PM (#10630298)

I'm typing this on an Thinkpad X60 which is plugged into a power supply of similar vintage to the machine judging by the IBM branding &c. The laptop was manufactured in December 2006 and is ex-corporate (i.e. not treated with kid gloves) and judging by the nicks in the cable, the PSU has had a similar life.

So might Apple PSUs for all I know, my ancient white iBook G4 psu is still serviceable although the iBook is in its box because the hard drive sounds like a food mixer and I can't be bothered to go through the procedure needed to remove or replace the drive...

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/iBook+G4+12-Inch+800+MHz-1.2+GH...

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Re:Macbook charger teardown: surprising complexity inside Ap... by Alupis on Wednesday November 25, 2015 @06:00PM (#10630346)

> I can't be bothered to go through the procedure needed to remove or replace the drive...

It's rather unfortunate that most Apple computers (with non-soldered hdd's) still require this level of complexity to change out a routine maintenance component that's expected to fail. (or with some models, the hard drive cannot be replaced at all).

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