grapes911 said:
Well let's hope it is nothing serious enough to warrant recall. That's what I should have said in my original post...
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Macbook Magsafe connector burns up
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Well let's hope it is nothing serious enough to warrant recall. That's what I should have said in my original post...
Wow, what a weird story,
Im thinking either three things happened;
A.) One of his cats was being dominant over the nice warm MBP and decided to mark it territory. THe urine probably caused a short which burnt up the magsafe connector while in the meantime the cat takes off catching the cord and unplugging it from the MBP
B.) As the person who posted the pictures said, It caught on fire by itself and the cat tried to stomp out the fire which caused the connector to disconnect.
C.) (Most Probable)
The cat was using the MBP and was amazed by the speed of the Core Duo processor causing the cat to lose its bladder over the MBP.
Im thinking either three things happened;
A.) One of his cats was being dominant over the nice warm MBP and decided to mark it territory. THe urine probably caused a short which burnt up the magsafe connector while in the meantime the cat takes off catching the cord and unplugging it from the MBP
B.) As the person who posted the pictures said, It caught on fire by itself and the cat tried to stomp out the fire which caused the connector to disconnect.
C.) (Most Probable)
The cat was using the MBP and was amazed by the speed of the Core Duo processor causing the cat to lose its bladder over the MBP.
Man, that's some funny stuff. Keep it up. I actually laughed out loud. Usually takes some serious real-life stuff to do that, but you got me.macOSX-tastic said:if it turns out there is a flaw in the design, well, it serves all y' all right for buying dirty dirty intel rubbish!!! (hugs PowerBook and it's hideous, ugly, out of date, so yesterday, not to be seen in the light of day, regular plug-mechanism, dont put that thing in front of me, i want it out of the house or i leave now, primitive powercord)
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Update: Apple has images of burned Macbook Magsafe connector removed!
"The reason for this is that Apple, after dealing with this issue, kindly requested me to remove the pictures at least until their engineers had a change to investigate this issue. Since Apple support has been very helpful and already is getting me a new Macbook asap, I'm happy to answer their request."
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rheauchyr/113019035/
"The reason for this is that Apple, after dealing with this issue, kindly requested me to remove the pictures at least until their engineers had a change to investigate this issue. Since Apple support has been very helpful and already is getting me a new Macbook asap, I'm happy to answer their request."
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rheauchyr/113019035/
He exposed Apple and looks like Apple is covering it up. Conspiracy? Did anybody download the pics and can you post them here? If somebody did that, I wonder how long it would take for Apple to contact MacRumors.
SJ probably pulled up in his Benz wearing a black suit and sunglasses and told the person never to mention this again.
SJ probably pulled up in his Benz wearing a black suit and sunglasses and told the person never to mention this again.
plinkoman said:no, because nothing can rust except iron. other metals can and do oxidize, but as rust is a special name for the more well known oxidation of iron specifically, iron can be the only metal that will rust, and i'm pretty sure those connectors aren't made of iron
Hmm, I see. What do you think the orangish substance is outside of the connector?
bodeh6 said:
I doubt it, considering this is the first we've heard of such a magsafe problem.
I cast my vote toward: "The cat peed on it."
Too much cat involvement for my taste. I'll be real interested to see if there are any chemical traces of cat saliva or urine or spray on that cord.
I heard of someone in Macrumors also having their cat pee into the holes of a Powermac G5. Anyways, that was nice that Apple is going to help out in this case. They must have dedicated people looking at Macrumors all day long.
my bet is that he did something that broke his MBP's power supply (like tested some other power source or something), and he knew he wouldnt get it replaced, so he got a lighter and made up some story that would be bad press for apple so they replaced it. these are the sorts of things i think about doing when i break something, but id not do it; fraud.
chaos86 said:
Yea but the MBP was burnt, it wouldn't be smart to intentionally burn part of your +2k computer just because you broke you power supply and want to be slick and get a replacement. It could have been his cat and it could not have been no one really knows.
