Dangerous Apple Power Adapters?

An anonymous reader writes "Even with all these exploding Dell notebooks and other notebook safety problems, Apple has seemed relatively immune. Every once in a while, some odd thing came along, but it seemed like relatively calm waters. Not anymore — Apple's notebook power adapters appear to be the source of some serious safety concerns. Every iBook and PowerBook user should read this and keep a close eye on their adapter — the adapters suffer from very poor design including wires that seem prone to short out and burn and zero short circuit protection."

Comments

Cheap Build Quality

[segedunum]

That's what happens when a manufacturer starts getting obsessed with cutting corners and costs. It's the sort of quality you might expect if you bought something like a cheap 400W power supply churned out in the Far East, only to discover it produces nowhere near 400W and it then goes pop after a short period of time. And I've never seen one of them do this.

Makes you wonder what you're paying Apple good money for.

Apple has ALWAYS

[ratboy666]

done stuff like this.

The original Apple ][ did everything in software to save a few bucks.

The Macs? Same thing. Unshielded cables, cases... caused me a LOT of grief. Networking over serial? An attempt to save money by not putting ethernet into Apple kit.

Apple stands for interesting (cool) concepts implemented cheaply.

Reasonable software, though. But, its always been a bandaid over inferior hardware.

Ratboy