[Barefoot Matt]

I just wanted to share my recent experience, and find out if anyone else has had similar problems. I had had my MBP for about a week and a half when my magsafe connector started having trouble connecting. Sometimes it would snap into place, but the light wouldn't go on until I fiddled with it a bit. Within two days, it was to the point where I had to spend five minutes fiddling with it to get it to connect. Perhaps the strangest thing at this point was that for a little while when I was fiddling with the connector, the battery indicator on the menu bar showed a battery with an X through it, and clicking on it showed "no battery connected", even though it wasn't connecting to the power adapter and was operating just fine. Anyway, by the end of that day it wouldn't connect anymore, no matter how much I fiddled.

Apple's sending me a new adapter, so I can't complain too much. It was quite the ordeal to get one, since I don't have a credit card and they want one as insurance to make sure I'll send the old one back, but when they weren't able to contact a local reseller to arrange for me to pick it up (duh, it was 7:00 pm in my time zone), they decided to just send me one anyway and not care about the old one.

Anyway, I'm not too impressed. This is my second apple product. The first was an iPod mini, and the headphones crapped out after a couple months and had to be replaced too. I like my MBP, but I sure hope I just got a bad adapter and it's not that the magsafe is really so fragile that a couple weeks of moderate use can break it. So could you all reassure me by telling me how wonderfully it works for you?

Now, while I wait for my adapter, I can't do any serious work on my laptop for fear of running out of battery power and later needing to get something off of it. I have the display brightness on low, airport and bluetooth off, and only use ethernet when I need it, but then I had to burn something to a DVD, and those 20 minutes cost me 2 hours of battery life . So I'm back to the old windows box, and the MBP sits in its bag.

[aristotles]

I'm sorry to hear that.

[volcano]

Apple is great on rush delivery for items like that - I wouldn't be surprised if you received it tomorrow. Hopefully this will be your last - and I'm sure it will work great.

The headphones that come with all iPods are horrible to begin with - both construction-wise and sound-wise. Honestly, I'm surprised they lasted you a couple of months with moderate abuse. I just keep my original iPod headphones sealed, and when I sell it I make a big point in mentioning the "new, still sealed original headphones and foam pads." Works like a charm.

[Zeeb]

I'm also really sorry you had a crappy power adapter. You asked for reassurance so--the magsafe on my machine works great and I love it. In fact, it saved my computer from crashing off the desk just this weekend. That incident alone makes it one of the favorite features of the computer for me.

I'm sure the cord they are shipping you will work fine. As volcano said, Apple seems to be very good at shipping replacement items quickly. I've found that they are fairly easy to deal with when you have an issue.

[wowway1]

I've had very good success with Apple products. In fact, I've owed 3 different towers, 4 different laptops and 2 iMac flatpanels over the years and I've yet <knock wood> to have a problem with any of them.

Getting ready to take the MBP plunge myself so hopefully I'll not get a lemon