Reviews for Apple 45W MagSafe 2 Power Adapter for MacBook Air

Very poor quality! This charger only lasted 1.5 years. Annoying to have to replace so soon (or at all).

I upgraded to a new Airbook this winter and hate the new power cord. I teach and am on-line a ton. I grade many nights from my chair (Airbook in my lap) and the cord disconnects far too easily. An annoyance at best. Bring back the old design.

I have now gone through two of these for my MacBook. They just wear out... No other explanation. This last one actually 'flamed out' causing a lot of smoke and nearly a fire.

The design is so bad that it falls out all the time... Like 30 times a day.... So frustrating and a big step back from the old version...

I certainly can understand and sympathise with the negative reviews. So far, however, I have had no problems with mine and its about 8 months old. Very glad for the magnetic adaptation, as some accidents could've gone horribly wrong for the laptop were it not for this feature. The only complaint is the quality of the wire: when winding it up, you can feel the wires inside of the wire jacket twisting within the jacket. I imagine someday one of them will break and necessitate a new adaptor. The only other complaint is the price: I'd like to get a second one for work. Then again, it's Apple; I should expect to pay a premium. :)

Why can't apple design an adapter that does not break every year?

Last week my adapter for my Macbook Air broke. This is not the first adapter that have stopped working in my company. In fact we have 10 MacBooks and of those 10 MacBooks 8 adapters have failed within the first two years. All of them with the same reason. A break in the cable between the power adapter and the macbook.

While a thin cable may look fine it simply cannot handle real world usage. And if the adapter cable breaks after the first year Apple simply refuses to replace the adapter and expect customers to buy a "replacement part". This "replacement part" is actually nothing more than a new adapter and priced exactly the same.

One would expect that a billion dollar company would be capable to design a power adapter that actually works well. Instead Apple created a bad product and forces customers to pay large amounts of money (yes, 79 US$ is a lot for a charger) Unfortunately, even the highly skilled employees lack the skill to understand the real-life wear and tear of a cable connected to a power adapter.

Worst adapter design ever.

I bought Macbook air 11" and the charger broke after 8 month, I went to apple store to change it and the new one also broke after 5 month. Laptop is good and I liked it but the charger is JUNK!!!

I sold my Mid 2009 MacBook Pro and bought the 2012 MacBook Air. While I like the Air better the new adapter is useless. It disconnects and/or falls off all the time. I'm an Apple supporter through and through but this thing is a joke. I agree that Apple should recall this product and give us all the old style adapters that never fell off or disconnected unless I wanted it to. PLEASE APPLE, RECALL THIS PIECE OF JUNK ADAPTER!!!

MagSafe2 is ruining my otherwise perfect experience with my Macbook Pro Retina.
It falls out if you look at it, breathe on it, move it in any way, think about it, disrespect it, etc.