[radicalbyte]

The standard connectors have a horrible tendency to break through mechanical wear after a few years. On the laptop side, not the charger side.

They also take the laptop with them then pulled by a kid or fell over on.

If there's a problem with the MagSafe, it's that the cable itself breaks after 12-18 months due to lack of stress relief, requiring an expensive replacement and inspiring people to buy $15 euro fire starters.

Complain about Apple being too cheap to hire some proper engineers to build the cable, not the brilliantly designed connector.

[farva]

I've repaired dozens of laptops and the one thing the broken power connectors had in common was being soldered directly to the motherboard instead of using a separate assembly.