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Once the MacBook was announced, Apple shut the door on PowerPC portable computers, completing a chapter of the transition to its Intel-powered future. The announcement was supposedly delayed for a week, and the tension building up to its actual release was thick despite the overwhelming amount of information readily available, albeit rumored, on certain websites. We all knew it was coming and we had a pretty good idea about what form it would be arriving in. Price as configured: US$1,299 ( shop for this item) If it means going back to proprietary power bricks, then MagSafe should probably stay dead.Quick specs: Intel Core Duo T2500 CPU, 512MB RAM, 60GB hard drive, Intel GMA950 graphics If Apple can figure out a way to bring MagSafe back without losing the power port's standard USB-C connection, then I'm all for it. Having it in MacBooks has always been a surprisingly nonproprietary move, and maybe one that was too good to last. The iPad Pro and Air have USB-C charging now, as does everything from the Nintendo Switch to the Oculus Quest.

The MagSafe and revamped MagSafe 2 connectors.įor me, that means I'm closing in on one year of working primarily at home, and not having to worry about which laptop power supply was in which room. Try hard enough and you may eventually find an edge case where Charger A doesn't work with Laptop B, but other than devices like gaming laptops (which only recently started supporting USB-C charging), it's rare you'll run into a problem. Most laptop chargers 45W, or 60W, and I've mixed and matched with abandon over the past few years. there's a good chance its own USB-C power cable will work with the MacBook, and vice-versa.Īpple's laptop chargers are 30W, 61W and 96W. But they do have one undeniable advantage over MagSafe: No matter what modern, mainstream laptop I have sitting around - a Dell XPS 13, HP Spectre, Acer Swift, Lenovo ThinkPad, Asus ZenBook, etc. Modern MacBooks all use USB-C ports for charging, which don't allow the cable to safely detach (at least not by design). The first USB-C-powered MacBook, from 2015.

Because they were so proprietary, losing an old MacBook power brick (or almost any laptop power supply before the USB-C era) meant hunting for a replacement, and your options were usually an expensive official model or an often-unreliable knockoff. It probably kept every MacBook safe from at least a few tumbles off the table. The classic MagSafe was a brilliant design, safely pulling free whenever you tripped over it. Read more: iPhone 12 MagSafe accessories: How Apple's snappy new magnet feature works Then, Apple started using the MagSafe name again in 2020 for a series of magnetic phone charging accessories, but there are few similarities beyond the name. If yanked, the MagSafe cable safely pulled away from the rest of the laptop.