When HN users recommended it
2 HN users recommended this in 2016, in 2 comments.
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Amazon's catalog no longer lists this product (checked 2026-11-02). The name comes from the link HN users posted.
2 HN users recommended this in 2016, in 2 comments.
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To be fair, the Amazon page is extremely misleading with regard to this.
https://www.amazon.ca/ORIGINAL-MACBOOK-Magsafe-ADAPTER-CHARG...
ORIGINAL OEM APPLE MACBOOK PRO 60W Magsafe 2 [...] by Apple-Computers
But it's not really by Apple, it's by cable_connexion and is a generic. Amazon does a really lousy job of policing what's put into the "From" field on their site - I'm surprised it hasn't gotten them sued yet.
Amazon is complete crap these days.
It's becoming more and more difficult to figure out who you are buying from, and as a result there are outright scams sitting on Amazon's store at this moment that they continue to do nothing about:
https://www.amazon.ca/ORIGINAL-MACBOOK-Magsafe-ADAPTER-CHARG...
See that? That's the infamous "dangerous" counterfeit Apple Macbook charger that made the rounds[1][2] a while back. Notice how it says "by Apple-Computers"? This is a scam. It's not by Apple. It's a dangerous fire-hazard knockoff. Yet it's tagged in a way that will no doubt mislead people into thinking it's safe and "official". People were pointing this out months ago[3], yet it's still there on Amazon's store, no doubt along with countless other dangerous misleadingly-branded ripoffs.
This is fraud, pure and simple. And Amazon continues to profit from it, right out in the open. It's disgusting.