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

Not poor design

[Timesprout]

Its low quality electricity causing the problems

Re:Not poor design

[Whiney Mac Fanboy]

I couldn't agree with your post more!11!!!!11!!

The thought that one of Apple's many chinese hardware subcontractors could possibly have made a boo boo in a small batch is utterly inconcievable!11!!!!

I say anyone who questions the quality of Apple's hardware is an M$ shill.

Re:Not poor design

[thelost]

This is closer to the truth then you could start to believe! I have recently seen pieces of heavy electricity literally falling off power lines. I can quite imagine that too much heavy electricity could easily crush an Apple power adapter and cause serious danger.

Re:Not poor design

[igny]

That reminded me of a story about an instructor of parachuting who said that if you are landing on a power line then try not to touch the bottom of the line. When confused listeners asked him why, he said that heavier electricity flows on the bottom of the wires and that is why you don't see birds sitting on the wire electrocuting themselves.

Missing last line...

[talkingpaperclip]

"Is this the end for Apple?"

Re:Missing last line...

[Dlugar]

And the corresponding story tags:

yes, no, fud, notfud

Dlugar

Re:Missing last line...

[jdbartlett]

It wasn't a serious comment, but I for one find !fud easier to read than notfud.

Then again, I'm using Mac and Linux machines where "antialiasing" means something other than "blur" (and where "power adapter" means "timebomb" apparently).

Re:Missing last line...

[3dr]

I'm partial to double-plus unfud.

What's Dell got to do, got to do with it?

[Anonymous Coward]

In other words, the words you wanted to say...

Dell and other PC notebooks suck and blow, but mostly Dell, cause that Dell guy said something bad about Apple, which makes them the worst. So we all know that Dells exploding and killing puppies and children is just another Tuesday.

Of course Apple has always been perfect. Many people even actually sit around wondering just how it is they stay so perfect. I know because I'm in a club. That's why it just boggles they mind that somehow something isn't perfect with the power adapter. Probably because they got it from Dell. So just know it's less than absolutely perfect and keep an eye on it.

Re:why oh why

[MobileTatsu-NJG]

"does my girlfriends pussy smell of fishes?"

No. She smells of inflatable plastic.

Re:Not exactly new

[MobileTatsu-NJG]

"After 3 Apple laptops, I've had no problems, I've had a G3 iBook, a G4 Alubook and now I am on a G4 iBook."

I owned a Dell laptop that never caught fire.

If there is no lawsuit, it is not widespread

[Nice2Cats]

Fortunately, this is America, so it is very easy to figure out if this is a widespread problem: If there is no gimme-a-million-bucks-I-deserve-it class-action lawsuit ongoing, forget it. It is that easy.

Re:Apple G3 power adapter recall

[StikyPad]

Is this a new problem?

No. As you may recall, Apple had a power adapter safety recall by the Consumer Product Safety Commission back in the G3 era, and a battery recall last year.