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Re:Apple’s 2016 in review by lobster_johnson on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @02:04AM (#13307305)
Same here, and I used to think people were being careless... until I started working remotely from places like coffee shops where I had to bring my charger every day. Turns out the thinner MagSafe cable will fray after a while if you unpack and pack it on a daily basis. I bet it's due to winding the cord around the brick. I use the little legs you can flip out (they've been removed on the new charger). The last few months the cable has frayed in two places. Easy fixable with electrical tape, although I wish there was a way to pack the thing without straining it.

I have never had an entire Apple charger stop working, though.

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Re:Apple’s 2016 in review by devonkim on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @06:59AM (#13308556)
I can't find the document but Apple's official instructions for their chargers include winding around the pop-up plastic legs. I've never had a frayed cord since the days of the TiBook, but I have managed to break a leg on the adapter and crunch the connector when the laptop fell while connected. MagSafe, while a little pricier, has been more cost-effective for users compared to the truly unacceptable design that existed before.
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Re:Apple’s 2016 in review by uptown on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @07:32AM (#13308676)
Apple got rid of both MagSafe and those pop up winding legs on the new MBP.
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Re:Apple’s 2016 in review by mrmondo on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @02:23AM (#13307387)
Yeah, interesting - that's certainly not and never has been my use case (ultra / daily portable), there must be some sort of rating for number of insertions / connections similar to the varying USB standards over the years - I wonder if that's published somewhere, if so we could probably do the math and come up with a - moves per week rating for a charger?
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Re:Apple’s 2016 in review by ashark on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @11:10AM (#13310064)
I guess my wad-up-roughly-and-throw-in-the-bag method is gentler somehow than using the built-in pegs. Laziness wins yet again?
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