> I found the Magsafe adapter cords would fray, corrode, and blacken pretty easily, becoming a fire hazard. Every Macbook I owned, I would need at least one replacement over a 3 year period.
My Magsafe power supply is a decade old, and except for being dirty has no problems.
You've repeated it a couple of times in this thread, and this doesn't hold up.
1. The cord is standard plastic sheathing: how does that fray?
2. Are you in a damp atmosphere for it to corrode?
3. You don't qualify what "blackening" is. Do you mean become dirty, or burnt?
1. See sibling posters. The plastic sheathing would split, and eventually splay. Electrical tape was the solution many used.
2. North America?
3. Burnt, i.e. the cable would turn brown at the edges connecting to the power supply or the Magsafe adapter.
I'm glad your power supply still works. This situation is sort of like the new MBP Keyboard: I've never had a problem with it, but many have. With the older power supplies, I've gone through at least three replacements over 10 years of MagSafe, not counting the new ones I received with new laptops. Much less expensive and time consuming than the keyboard so not as big a deal.
My point is that the Magsafe power adapters weren't this shining beacon of perfect design. They had flaws in practice, and USB-C has so far corrected those flaws (and introduced its own tradeoffs).
My Magsafe power supply is a decade old, and except for being dirty has no problems.
You've repeated it a couple of times in this thread, and this doesn't hold up.
1. The cord is standard plastic sheathing: how does that fray?
2. Are you in a damp atmosphere for it to corrode?
3. You don't qualify what "blackening" is. Do you mean become dirty, or burnt?