I'm always interchanging power bricks and they all worked just fine. If
you use a small low-wattage one it will run most laptops but you won't
be able to charge your battery at the same time. Last time I needed to
buy one was when my wife found one of the kids sucking on the plug. He
was unharmed but the power supply never worked right after that. At the
time I found a pretty good price at
http://www.megamacs.com/
but they seem to be having some database issue at the moment.
CB
On 4/7/12 4:47 PM, Lewis Alexander wrote:
from the early intel macbooks, they were the same as the recent ones, with
exception of wattage ratings.
where abouts are you? I can look up a specialist refurbs place in the USA who
carries older components.
what I could do with is the machine serial number and then go from there.
the system serial can be found through going to about this mac in the apple
manu and then going to more info, this opens system profiler and you can get
the system serial number and model from there.
cheers.
lew
On 7 Apr 2012, at 21:44, Brent Harding wrote:
Yeah, I just knew that there were L shaped and T shaped ones, and if you don't
have the correct one, depending on the firmware in the machine, if you
originally had the older one, that's all you could charge with, and I heard
Apple doesn't make the old one now. Maybe I can get by with that plug, but
there's probably plenty of them on Ebay.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Lewis
Alexander"<freemacsforthebl...@gmail.com>
To:<macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2012 3:25 PM
Subject: Re: Any cheaper way to get a new charger that works with my somewhat
older Macbook?
hi, the apple charger is pretty much a standard unit and there are no
compatible products due to patent applications from apple preventing clones.
an option or two open to you is ebay for a refurb or used pack or even an apple
refurb company depending on where you are in the world.
lew
On 7 Apr 2012, at 21:21, Brent Harding wrote:
Hi there. I have this Mac Book that I bought for a good deal some time in 2008
or 2009, that was upgraded and was only 6 months used at that time, if the guy
ever did much with it besides keeping it around to sell. When I took it home to
my parents' place once, I never noticed that the charger got in front of the
car door, and some bracket snapped off. My dad was able to super glue it back
together and it works here, but I might be getting a work experience where I
might need to move it around from one outlet to another since it only goes
about 90 minutes in Windows, and maybe a little more in Snow Leopard. From what
I've read, a new one of these costs around $80 and may not work, depending if
my machine successfully took a certain firmware update. Is there cheaper places
to get one like the original one that I have so I don't find myself in a
situation that a different kind doesn't charge the battery?
Thanks.
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