On Friday, September 5, 2003, at 10:27 AM, Lewin Edwards wrote:
with my sweaty socks on a ceramic tile floor, I fell a slight electrical shock when my wrist touches the edge of the frame. The current is the power supply leakage current, a parasitic capacitive leakage path across the transformer in the AC adapter. While small it is still irritating.
I've had this problem with every PowerBook I've ever owned. With my Pismo, I get it when my fingers stray too close to any seam in the housing, where the internal RF shield paint comes close to the outside world. And I often get it off
My AlBook does not exhibit this behavior, just as an FYI.
the trackpad too. I hate trackpads; I wish Apple would use the rubber-nub type controller. That's one of the big downsides of the Apple single-source world - everybody is forced to live with one guy's cosmetic and ergonomic preferences.
Actully, very few PC laptops ship with those nub type controllers now either. I think IBM still sticks with them, but just about any other major laptop mfg uses a trackpad. Personally, I find the track pad easier to control and a lot less unobtrusive when I type.
Steve
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