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ORIGINAL MACBOOK Magsafe ADAPTER CHARGER

Amazon's catalog no longer lists this product (checked 2026-11-02). The name comes from the link HN users posted.

When HN users recommended it

2 HN users recommended this in 2016, in 2 comments.

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What HN users said

542458 linked amazon.ca View on HN

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.

bdrool linked amazon.ca View on HN

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.

  [1] http://www.righto.com/2016/03/counterfeit-macbook-charger-teardown.html
  [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11325150
  [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11325464

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