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"I think the MagSafe connector is one of Apple’s best ideas ever."

If you're saying that Apple invented this, my mother had this on her deep-fryer in 1979. Nothing new. However, it's a good idea to add it to a laptop.




doesn't matter. along with getting rid of the latch it's one the best things apple has done to laptops.


Wow, I forgot about the latch. Been using a MacBook for 3 years and I guess I take it for granted. Was Apple the first to ditch that?


I think that came with the switch to unibody, so for some Macs in 2008.


The plastic MacBooks never had latches. Not sure about the iBooks, but possibly they did too - at least, post clamshell.


just for the record (very late, wow) the first laptops to ditch the latch iirc were the original iBooks, the "toilet seat" macs.


My wife's non-unibody MacBook (not pro) from '06 also has no latch.


I want to say MacBooks don’t count (always the sucky and worthless Macs), but I guess they do. So it started there. But the MacBook Pro definitely had latches until 2008, so for the Pro line what I said is completely true.


Why sucky and worthless?




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