Too much XP may melt your brain and power cord

This happened at school to a kid who just bought a MacBook. He left it there overnight to do some raytracing rendering withmaya under windoze and when we got back in the morining the computer was off, the room that held the laptop was shut off by the circuit breaker, and on th floor was a puddle of cooled rubber and plastic.

I think the power management under winblows has something to do with this.

My 85w adapter sort of quit working. I was getting neither the green or orange lights. Plugged in another one and it worked fine -yes, I have two.

So I took the broken one to the Genius bar and for them, the thing worked fine. They sent me away saying they'd never heard of ANY problems with the magsafe adapters and anyway, they had none in stock to give out as replacements.

I always thought Apple's "none in stock" meant they had a new revision on the way. hmmm

My standard 60w Macbook brick aso experinced heating issues which resulted in the magsafe side of the cord aquiring heat damage, the cord either melted due to heat or urnt while I was in another room.

I have an applcare plan on my Macbook and they say that they are sending me a new adapter free of charge as is expected under my plan. I called on the 25th and have yet to recieve a product that claims to have 24 hour shipping. I smell a rat, if the shipping is taking that long it must be fairly widespread and if Apple knows this they should issue a recall. I like apple products but sometimes things like this give me reason to be very angry with apple.

OMG... This happened to me as well... they should have made both side of the cable mag safe so its cheapers to replace the melted cables

i am pretty sure that is a power brick to a mac book pro not a mac book.

WOW!?! That is crazy! I have 2 toasted white ac adapters in the closet. The Apple folks did nothing for me. My sister lives across town and uses an Dell XP machine. Damn her eyes!!
This is just another example of bad software ruining good hardware. It is so sad that people don't understand what other OS's do to our lives.
GET OFF THIS!!
Apple AC adapters have been trash since, since, always. If this was a PC AC adapter burning up running Mac, which it is not designed too, this would be a story about bad hardware. This should be, and is, a story about bad hardware.

Now lets enjoy our PBs, MBPs and iBooks without having to blame Ubuntu for our 18 month batteries and lids that don't close very well.

What in the hell is wrong with you?

On my PowerBook, the power adapter automatically shuts itself off when it gets too hot. It has happened to me several times already. It'll only start functioning again after it has cooled down a bit, but it isn't automatic. I need to re-insert the plug into the wall outlet to get it running again.

I wonder if Apple failed to include this feature in the new power bricks.

I don't know how related mine is, but my MacBook Pro 17" Core Duo 2.16 GHz likes to shock me, and will quit when I disconnect the power from it. I have talked to Apple about it, they basically said just ignore it.

Well mine happens at the magsafe end and after having to replace two of them I have been extremely careful with them and I never ever pull the tip away by the cable I always make sure I grab the head and tilt it to remove it, furthermore they are used in quite a static environment barely being moved.

When I called applecare all I got was being passed around on the phone for an hour then I was made drive to the nearest apple center which was over an hour drive each way only to be told that they have never heard of this problem and told that I broke the cable by "getting it caught in a drawer" they didn't seem worried about the burn marks or melted plastic.

That was it they said I have to buy a new one and they would call apple to let them know that it shouldn't be replaced as it happened under their "fair ware and tear" policy.

It is a complete load of BS and obviously someone is going to get electrocuted before they act on it.

I got my new one free of charge with no issues from the genius bar.