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Are 'official' brand laptop chargers better than generic ones, which never seem to last, or have I just had bad luck?
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Depends how you treat them. An "official" one may take a bit more abuse than a generic one, but they'll all die eventually if you, for example, constantly wind the cord up tightly in the same direction, putting a twist in it.
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One of the first things I do is buy another power supply and I always buy cheaper generic ones. My experience is that they are no worse than the official ones.
I''ve Breen using a £20 power supply on my MacBook for 2 years without any problems.One by one the penguins are slowly stealing my sanity.0 -
They are all much of a mutchness IME.
I've replaced several expired OEM chargers with far cheaper non-branded supplies on several laptops over the years and they have all performed flawlessly.
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