[OSX-Users] Re: Caveat of L-style MagSafe on laptop designed for T-style

[Christopher Gutteridge]

I have been using several of these cheap knock-offs with no problems. 
The 'charging' light sometimes doesn't go on/off right but that's a 
reasonable trade off for a fair price.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/180825503226?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649

There's a few negative feedbacks on ebay but very few. I've bought 3 so 
far and they seem to work OK. Saves me moving plugs between all the 
rooms in the house.

This is *not* a formal recommendation, just saying out that they work 
for me so far.



On 16/12/2012 09:47, Philip Boulain wrote:
> I don't know if anyone else on the list would be seen dead with Apple 
> kit this old, but just as a heads-up, if you have a 
> 2006/2007/came-with-OS-X-10.4-era MacBook Pro that took "T-style" 
> MagSafe then, yes, the newer "L-style" Air-style MagSafes (NOT the 
> newer-newer ones) that the Apple Store will sell you /do/ correctly 
> fit the socket and will work...but due to the cable now running 
> parallel down the side of the Mac, the cable passes right over your 
> left USB, microphone and headphone sockets. You can just about get 
> away with the headphone one without too much of a painful kink, but if 
> you use an external microphone or the adjacent USB port, you will have 
> to plug the power adapter in pointing away from you (unfortunately I 
> can't route the cable this way myself).
>

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