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From: Jochem Huhmann on 24 May 2010 16:15
zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> writes:

> I second the idea that MagSafe is worth more than a tenner - I'd worry
> about buying a laptop without it.

It's one of these things you only start to value after you've used them
a while. Very much like a screen lid you can actually open and adjust
with one hand without having to hold down the machine with the other
hand... Or a trackpad that manages to ignore accidental touches when
you're just typing and still works fine when you mean to use it.


Jochem

--
"A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there is no
longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
From: whisky-dave on 25 May 2010 08:39

"zoara" <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote in message
news:1648078117296388806.207322me18-privacy.net(a)news.individual.net...
> chris <ithinkiam(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 21/05/10 10:59, T i m wrote:
>> > On Fri, 21 May 2010 09:41:22 +0100, chris<ithinkiam(a)gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > <snip>
>> >
>> >> p.s. Magsafe is worth a hellovalot more that a tenner!
>> >
>> > I agree that's a pretty god idea. Out of interest has anyone copied
>> > it
>> > somehow?
>>
>> I've asked that before and the response is that it is probably
>> patented/trademarked to the hilt.
>
> It is. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MagSafe
>
> | Apple owns US patent 7,311,526 [...] for this technology".
>
> I second the idea that MagSafe is worth more than a tenner - I'd worry
> about buying a laptop without it. Not only does it avoid accidental
> damage, it also means you can be a lot more relaxed about where you
> string cables (having said that, while you can't really trip on a
> magsafed cable, you *feel* like you're going to trip enough that you
> react and end up tripping over your own feet).

yes especially where others are, I've kicked the magsafe connector off the
back of a friends macbook pro, he was actually happy about it, thinking that
if it'd been an ordinary connector I/we be looking to buy a new one and
he's
macbook might have been put out of action or need some serious repair work
which what happened to his old iBook.



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