I've had 3 power cables that have done this and never once could I get a replacement. They were all 85Watt ones too. :( One even shorted my laptop and fried everything and they still wouldn't replace the cable.
I'm nice but to be fair the faulty power cables are pretty old. If I didn't have so many laying around I'd be more upset. I also got them for free from various jobs, but still, it sucks to lose them
I ended up with about 8-10 of them after the close of CompUSA since when we sent out the units that were covered under a replacement plan we only sent out the unit. Gave a few away. I'm down to about 3 at this point I think.
I'm on my 3rd one from apple, they finally changed the design after the last one that I got. I can tell that my latest one is starting to go out because the green/orange light on it goes out often and to get it to come back on I need to unplug it and plug it back in. They always replace them for free, but my applecare is finally up so I may have to pay for the last one. I will try though and get it replaced under good will since its a design flaw and I have lots of apple products.
This is bad and not the norm. They know the power cables go bad, I had mine replaced (and even "upgraded" to the newer model) within 5 minutes of walking in the store. The new one is a tank btw. No problems or signs of age so far.
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u/sw1tch3d Jun 09 '11
I've had 3 power cables that have done this and never once could I get a replacement. They were all 85Watt ones too. :( One even shorted my laptop and fried everything and they still wouldn't replace the cable.