The Lance J. Technoweb

Every Apple site has users that complain that Apple MagSafe Power Adapters can fail... but nobody says what you can do to fix them. I happened to buy an old MacBook and it came with an unreliable MagSafe power adapter. How can Apple, after producing this general style of AC adapter for over 15 years, manage to continue to make a power adapter that fails?  More confounding, I've purchased a number of MacBooks over the last decade, and I have never had a problematic MagSafe power adapter.  What gives? The simple answer is: Customer Abuse. I've actually had my hands on at least 10 broken MagSafe power adapters, and in every single case the failure was caused by customer misuse.  Here is the list of failures I've seen: Cat or Dog chewed cable Pinched cable (crushed from furniture or a door or something) Over-stressed cable (from repeated yanking, over-winding, or some other abusive behavior) And that's it!  In no case have I seen a MagSafe charger fail fro...