Macbook charger getting EXTREMELY hot, smells bad.

[ZebraineZ]

Hey my macbooks charger, its a white macbooks charger, which is the same watts as my unibodies, is getting extremely hot when I use it on my unibody. It never was this hot and IDK why it is like this. It smellss like a hot iron when I smell it up close and I'm scared.

I'm running vista on my unibody with 2gb ram and I know that vista support is crappy for macs even with boot camp, so it gets hot alot but I don't know why its doing this. My mom is using my unibodies charger for her white macbook I know it's pretty wierd.

 

[DoFoT9]

why dont you just swap them back if your so worried??

the charger is probably being worked too hard, it might burn out and stop working completely. i am not 100% sure on the power requirements of the new MB (it is a MB isnt it?) so yea...

 

[ZebraineZ]

why dont you just swap them back if your so worried??

the charger is probably being worked too hard, it might burn out and stop working completely. i am not 100% sure on the power requirements of the new MB (it is a MB isnt it?) so yea...

They are nearly identical, same watt and power, just that my macbook is 2.4gzh which wouldn't matter at all, and I am using an extension cord for my macbook and not the little clip plug.

 

[DoFoT9]

They are nearly identical, same watt and power, just that my macbook is 2.4gzh which wouldn't matter at all, and I am using an extension cord for my macbook and not the little clip plug.

if they are the same power requirements (60W is it?) then i see no problems at all.. the GHz difference is so minimal its not even funny.