The standard power adapter for Apple laptops is a work of art. The Magsafe connector has saved more than one laptop owned by the Hackaday crew, and the power brick with interchangeable plugs for ...

It's the small things in life. So it is that when your car battery dies, you can jump-start the engine using generic cables sold by any of the thousands of retail locations that stock the item. And ...

It seems that there’s a whole range of Toshiba Satellite laptop computers that suffer from a power jack design that is prone to breaking. We see some good and some bad in this. The jack is not mounted ...

Those pesky power adapters. If the cord isn't coming out of the casing, the little tip that plugs into your laptop is snapping off. What are you supposed to do at $90US a pop? Get a new one? Heck, no.

Apple’s PowerBooks and iBooks are generally well-made, value-for-money machines, but they suffer from a critical design flaw — the tip of the AC power adapter is prone to breaking off inside the power ...

If your Windows 11/10 laptop beeps when a charger is plugged in, use the following suggestions to fix this issue. Below, we have explained all these solutions in detail. 1] It can be a feature of your ...