{"id":7100,"date":"2013-03-14T15:04:50","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T20:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=7100"},"modified":"2013-04-19T20:43:09","modified_gmt":"2013-04-20T01:43:09","slug":"the-chequered-history-of-magsafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/14\/the-chequered-history-of-magsafe\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chequered History of MagSafe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sparsebundle.net\/posts\/the-chequered-history-of-magsafe\/\">Jordan Merrick<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.sparsebundle.net\/posts\/the-chequered-history-of-magsafe\/\"><p>There&rsquo;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/HT1630\">Apple support article<\/a> that details how to reduce cable strain and damage on your MagSafe power adapter but that&rsquo;s about it, it&rsquo;s not even in the getting started booklet that&rsquo;s in the box with the Mac (at least it hasn&rsquo;t been on any Mac I&rsquo;ve owned). Unless you decided to one day research the best methods for keeping your adapter free of cable damage then you&rsquo;d never really know. Ironically, this was the exact same problem Apple&rsquo;s smaller profile 30-pin dock connector cables were experiencing since they shrank it and removed the need to pinch the sides - customers would just yank the cable.<\/p>\r\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\r\n<p>With the previous T-shaped connector, pull the cable in any direction and it&rsquo;ll detach. With the L-shaped connector, pull the cable in <em>most<\/em> directions and it&rsquo;ll detach. The one direction it won&rsquo;t detach is if it&rsquo;s pulled back away from the rear of the Mac (or the rear-right of the Mac), the cable can&rsquo;t detach since the MagSafe port is recessed. All it needs is a sharp tug of the cable backwards and it&rsquo;s enough to cause the exact problem MagSafe tried to avoid - a flying Mac.<\/p>\r\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\r\n<p>By reducing the height and increasing the width of MagSafe, Apple could move back to the more versatile T-shaped connector that all new MacBook Pro\/Airs ship with. The magnet is still pretty strong (in fact I think it&rsquo;s still a little too strong) but the cable&rsquo;s strain relief appears to be better and my cable has been in constant use for the better part of 8 months and it looks just as good as it did out of the box.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jordan Merrick: There&rsquo;s an Apple support article that details how to reduce cable strain and damage on your MagSafe power adapter but that&rsquo;s about it, it&rsquo;s not even in the getting started booklet that&rsquo;s in the box with the Mac (at least it hasn&rsquo;t been on any Mac I&rsquo;ve owned). Unless you decided to one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[131,295,30,365,280],"class_list":["post-7100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-bug","tag-history","tag-mac","tag-magsafe","tag-power"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7100"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7339,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7100\/revisions\/7339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}