Gabriel Gunderson wrote: > On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 00:48 -0600, Jordan Gunderson wrote: >> I actually looked into this for my crappy HP Pavillion just last >> night. > > I just typed up the same reply, but you beat me to the punch. However, > you failed to mention the best option: > > Junk the Pavillion and buy a Mac where they have the sweet magnetic DC > plug that makes everything else look so 70's by comparison.
I love my macbook, but I've just replaced 2 magsafe power adapters in a month (under applecare). For some reason sometimes the spring-loaded pins get spring-unloaded and then the connection is shoddy (it will only sometimes charge or not charge at all, though in both cases it always delivered operating power). I think it's relatively uncommon and that the sent replacement also went bad was mostly a fluke (the other one I have, which I bought with my own money, thankfully has not shown any of these symptoms). I love my mac and I love the magsafe concept, but power adapters is probably the least-reliable thing on a mac (and they're not cheap - $72 apiece retail). I also had trouble with the power adapter on my iBook, first the adapter itself (actually, 2 of them) and then the connector on the motherboard. Those were most definitely kid/trip related, the sort of thing the magsafe adapters brilliantly render a moot point. -- Hans Fugal ; http://hans.fugal.net There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. -- Johann Sebastian Bach /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
