Teardown of Mid-2012 MacBook Air Reveals Tweaked SSD Connector

[shurcooL]

Falling back to T-shaped is actually the biggest advantage of the Magsafe2 connector. This is the same as the very first Magsafe connector which did a good job at letting go when somebody tripped over the wire. The second version of that connector was absolutely useless in this department because you can lift the laptop by the cord. The connector did not let go because of its design. Tripping over a wire resulted in a laptop meeting the floor. It did nothing what the Magsafe connector promised to do: disconnect to save your laptop. Luckily this has been resolved and the old connector has been restored with the Magsafe2.

My colleagues didn't understand the Magsafe2 connector shape change until I lifted my MBP up by its power cord (I have the previous version, the non-T shaped one).

Thanks. So the change to L-shape was a mistake, huh.

 

[dyn]

Well, they changed the first one because people complained it was too easy to unplug. Unfortunately they changed to a shape that made it nearly impossible to dislodge when you trip over the wire. Maybe this new connector is somewhere in between. Time will tell.

 

[Romeolo888]

Hi, so does the new macair have retina display then?

 

[brdeveloper]

I still don't get the advantages of the new MagSafe 2 port. It's a little thinner, but the original was not thicker than a USB port anyway, so how does making it slightly thinner help at all?

There are disadvantages, including it being wider, creating incompatibility, fall back to T-shaped connector for some reason...

I want to understand in what ways MagSafe 2 is better, anyone have some ideas?

Why would Apple change something unless it's significantly better; they're not known to change things without a good reason.

They change things sometimes so they can sell expensive adapters or push us to buy a new computer when the older one stops functioning.

 

[Lahmy88]

good to see the SSD upgraded to 500 MB/s type. Bad Apple though on changing the proprietary connector - OWC you poor buggers