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I'm so glad they finally removed magsafe. FINALLY, both cables going into the powerbrick are replaceable. It never once saved my laptop from cord trip doom, but did cost me a lot in buying whole new powerbricks when the cord eventually wore out.

But whatever, who buys apple for the hardware? I mean, its a super nice bonus that it is overall the best hardware, but that's not the key reason.

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They could have made a replaceable Magsafe cable.

It saved my machines quite a few tines over the years since it came out in 2006.

The actually desirable feature was for the cable not to fray and disintegrate every 2 years. Making it replaceable at the expense of Magsafe is hardly the solution.

The first I do when I get a new power brick is tape both ends of the cord with electrical tape. It looks ugly but they last as long as I have the laptop (usually 6+ years), and I don't care about how it looks.

I have ripped the MagSafe out many times. One at each end would have been the best.

Ugh I hated MagSafe. If I used the computer on my lap, any movement of my leg would push up on the charger and stop charging because the tiniest force would move it up and down. But if I trip on the cable and pull it straight out, the whole laptop comes clattering down because it requires super-human force pulling straight out if you want to break the connection.

Basically in my experience MagSafe is that annoying thing that keeps unplugging my laptop when I bump the charger while still damaging my laptop if I trip on the cable.

> But whatever, who buys apple for the hardware?

Unless you mean because they need Xcode, are you joking? My personal Mac runs Linux, and my work Mac (with mandated image) frustrates me with macOS all day.

> But whatever, who buys apple for the hardware? I mean, its a super nice bonus that it is overall the best hardware, but that's not the key reason.

Good point! I had to buy a Mac for doing iOS development. I was (reasonably) happy on Linux before that.

I bought my Macbook for OS X as well. I was extremely unhappy with Windows 10 (and Linux wasn't an option because one of my core uses is music production which is barely supported)

I buy them for hardware actually (and wipe OSX, install Windows instead). My 2013 MBP is fantastic, but I probably won’t get the new MBP as the next machine, as the hardware just got too weird (huge trackpad, touchbar).

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