16” users who came from the 2015 15” - thoughts?

[jerryk]

I have magsafe and it's a total "meh" for me. I've literally never had it happen to me where the cable has been accidentally kicked out.

On the other side, I'd actually prefer not have a proprietary and expensive charger. To be fair, it's not that I've had to replace it either.

Not a dislike, not a disadvantage. I like the concept of magsafe, but I'm sure I'll actually miss HDMI, SD, and USB-A far more when I eventually transition away from a 2015 machine.

I can see something like magsafe being useful, but like you have not experienced the tripping issue. And that encompasses decades of laptop use with crawling babies and running teenagers zipping through the house. But I did experience numerous frayed and failed charger cables and shorted chargers. Never understood why mag safe chargers had the cable permanently attached.

 

[pshufd]

Magsafe is one of those things that you may not care about....

...until one day you very much do...

(I am aware there are 3rd party Mag-Safe-Sort-Of options for USB-C laptops, yes... wish Apple would make a 1st party option though. Power delivery isn't something most like to outsource to "who knows who made it" companies)

I'd used MBPs for about 6 years and wondered who would need MagSafe. And then I needed it. And it came though. If you mainly use it on a desk with KVM, you're likely not to need MagSafe. If you use it in more casual environments plugged in, there are cases where people can trip on the cord, pets, or just a bit of carelessness.

One of my Compaq laptops had a soft and loose connection. If you tugged it in the slightest, it would come out. Not magnetic - just held on by friction but it just barely held on.