nope, i walked into the apple store with my GF held up the adapter to the closest guy in an orange shirt, he said find someone in a blue shirt. held up the adapter and asked if they could take care of it. They had a box full of new adapters sitting under the counter, he grabbed one, and made the switch. Total time spent was under two minutes. but i couldnt go to an apple store for that little of time. so i browsed the new macbooks/macbook pros/iPod nanos . . . it was nice.