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Do you use MagSafe to charge your MacBook?

How do you charge your MacBook?

  • I use MagSafe

    Votes: 98 62.0%

  • I use the USB-C port

    Votes: 60 38.0%
  • Total voters
    158
PBG4 Dude said:
The light lets me know when charging has completed.
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If you set the charge limit to 95%, the light on the MagSafe cable will never change from orange to green. There is effectively no indication the MagSafe cable that charging has completed when charge limit is set.
 
Going to use MagSafe in the living room for my MBP M5 Pro and USB-C with 160w charger at 240w cable in office and in bedroom. I like to have all bases covered.
 
MagSafe is nice and preferred for my M4 Air. The 35W dual charger, while not the fastest, provides decent charge speed and the battery is very efficient so I usually only have to charge it once every 2-4 days depending on how much im using it. Thankfully my partner has a 70W USB-C for their windows laptop which I will borrow once in a while if I need to power up quick before leaving the house.
 
No. I have my M5 Pro MBP connected to a Thunderbolt 5 dock at home, and it charges from that. When I travel, I use a small travel charger and USB-C cable. I haven't even taken the Apple charger or MagSafe cable out of the box.
 
Yeah. But if I don't have my MagSafe charger with me but I do have either a power brick or battery pack, I'll use them via the USB-C port if I need to. It's nice to have both but if I had a Neo sans MagSafe, I'd be OK too.
 
With three large dogs in the house, who are always tripping over cables, MagSafe is a machine saver. Rarely use USB C to charge which is why the Neo is a pain, in that it does not have a MagSafe port, so I have to find a safe place to charge it where the dogs will not trip over the charging cable. 😂
 
About 50% of the time, and only because it came with one.

They should kill it. It feels redundant now. I'd much prefer it came with a USB-C charger as standard, and the space taken up by MagSafe was another USB-C port.
 
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Most of the time for me. I've broken a USB-C charging cable in a situation where the MagSafe would just have popped out. I also like not having to dedicate a USB port for charging.
 
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My personal MBP i almost exclusively charge with MagSafe cause I use it on the couch or somewhere else and then just charge it when needed

My work laptop is almost exclusively with USB-C through hubs (either standalone or built into a monitor)
 
Corefile said:
MagSafe is old school tech for older Apple users.
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I'm sorry, but this is a ridiculous statement. Speaking for myself, I'm about as "old school" a Mac user as there is, having used them since the spring of 1984 (My father was a university professor, and his department issued him one of the first ones they received). And I said before that I don't use MagSafe (post #32), so there goes your theory.

Maybe you don't see a use for MagSafe, but accept the fact that many intelligent people do. And please keep your ageism to yourself.
 
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raythompsontn said:
If you set the charge limit to 95%, the light on the MagSafe cable will never change from orange to green. There is effectively no indication the MagSafe cable that charging has completed when charge limit is set.
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That's not my experience...mine definitely turns green when it reaches the preset in battery settings and remains green for as long as it's plugged in.
 
At work I use USB-C because it is daisy chained with my monitor. Love the setup as that is the power as well as the display signal. I prefer Mag-Safe but in terms of keeping wires to a minimum you can't beat USB-C.
 
JDAM said:
That's not my experience...mine definitely turns green
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I checked again and the light on the MagSafe cable does turn green. Maybe that was one of the silent fixes in an update to the cable firmware. I thought it was strange that my Mac had been charging all night the light on the cable was still amber.
 
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