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Re:MacBook charger teardown: The surprising complexity insid... by j45 on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @05:17AM (#39764282)
I ran computers on a pdu and they lasted forever, the traditional transistors that blew on identical motherboards not using pdu/cleaned power is enough data for me
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Re:MacBook charger teardown: The surprising complexity insid... by astrange on Wednesday March 20, 2024 @04:53PM (#39771885)
I should say you're right about power surges and things like that. I meant to say I don't think it causes slow continual degradation as happens to batteries.
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