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    Read this before buying a macbook pro

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by darrensen, Mar 24, 2006.

  1. darrensen

    darrensen Notebook Consultant

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    darrensen, Mar 24, 2006
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    kinda scary, but hopefully just a random defective plug. I'm sure we'll hear a lot more if it's a design issue.
     
    CoffeeShark, Mar 24, 2006
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    this has been posted before. my opinoin is that is isn't a design flaw, but some effect, such as maybe some conductor caught in the port and shorting the powerlines. or as sugessted in those links, a cat peeing on the connector.


    I don't believe it to be a reason to not get a macbook.
     
    RadcomTxx, Mar 24, 2006
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    actually, magnets and electricity don't really affect each other. Electricity actually creates a magnetic field with the movement of electrons.

    this was most likely caused by a short of some kind.
     
    RadcomTxx, Apr 19, 2006
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    I did find that area hotter than most other parts of the laptop except for the bottom area near the HD and the CPU/GPU areas.
     
    jujube, Apr 20, 2006
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