One of Apple’s Best Ideas Ever — Made Worse

Re:One of Apple’s Best Ideas Ever — Made Worse by AlexandrB on Friday August 03, 2012 @01:32PM (#4335076)

Other manufacturers have! Just not laptop manufacturers:

http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/07/03/deep.fryers/

http://www.amazon.com/Presto-09982-Magnetic-Deep-Fryer/dp/B0...

Edit: Incidentally, I always assumed this is where Apple got the idea in the first place.

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Re:One of Apple’s Best Ideas Ever — Made Worse by k33l0r on Friday August 03, 2012 @01:38PM (#4335114)

Don't magnetic connectors on deep fat fryers famously pre-date MagSafe?

MagSafe (according to Wikipedia): 2006 The above CNN article: 2001

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Re:One of Apple’s Best Ideas Ever — Made Worse by eugenekaneko on Friday August 03, 2012 @02:20PM (#4335348)

The concept of MagSafe has been around for decades. My old water pot from Japan had it. The only innovation here is Apple repurposing it for laptop computers.

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Re:One of Apple’s Best Ideas Ever — Made Worse by pooriaazimi on Friday August 03, 2012 @10:00PM (#4337176)

And maybe (I don't know nothing about magnets) the fact that their magnet are very close to other silicon chips inside the MacBook AND the LCD display (It's LED, but technically they're almost the same).

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Re:One of Apple’s Best Ideas Ever — Made Worse by vacri on Saturday August 04, 2012 @12:55AM (#4337607)

Magnets in laptops aren't a problem - spinning disc hard drives have strong magnets in them.

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Re:One of Apple’s Best Ideas Ever — Made Worse by k33l0r on Friday August 03, 2012 @04:09PM (#4335913)

And yet Apple has a patent on it…

Not sure what to make of that.

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Re:One of Apple’s Best Ideas Ever — Made Worse by gergles on Friday August 03, 2012 @04:46PM (#4336090)

The patent office will grant you a patent on $anything, as long as you add "...on a computer" or "...on the internet" or "...over a cellular network".

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