I spent £79
on a replacement charger for my MacBook today; expensive, much?
It’s not every
day you send nearly eighty quid on a lead with a plug on the end of it…and it’s
never a good day when you do; there are so many things I would have rather used
the money on. It’s like when someone buys you a functional, yet dull household
appliance as a Christmas or birthday gift; you know it’s useful, but you’d
rather they’d given you anything but. Not so long ago, my dad treated me to a
dehumidifier, and while I was grateful for a marginally less steamy bathroom,
it was hard to work up much excitement about it; it would have been cheaper just to
push the window open a bit.
Unfortunately,
the new charger was a necessary evil, as one of the two I own decided to fray
to the point of no longer being usable a few weeks back, and I’m sick of
having to carry the other with me each time I walk to my office, instead of
keeping one of them there. I also need to have two fully functioning
adapters for when I decamp to Edinburgh in a month, as my show will be a
darn sight less entertaining if my laptop battery goes dead in the midst of
it.
Annoyingly, I
thought I’d nabbed a replacement at the bargain price - well, relatively
speaking - of £30 on Amazon the other day, but it turned out I’d been misled,
as while the blurb had implied it was an official Apple product it clearly
wasn’t, plus it only charged intermittently and gave me a low-level static
shock when I typed; no-one wants their laptop to share the properties of a Van
der Graaf Generator. Having said that, there’s one on sale on eBay at the moment
for a little shy of £150, whereas if I’d kept the dodgy charger I could have
had two products for the price of one; think of the science lessons I might
have led if I survived using it.