Comments on: Purcahse from The Madson Line at your own risk http://www.vidog.com/blog/purcahse-from-the-madson-line-at-your-own-risk/ the adventures of chrisk Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:34:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: chrisk http://www.vidog.com/blog/purcahse-from-the-madson-line-at-your-own-risk/comment-page-1/#comment-25118 chrisk Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:01:09 +0000 http://www.vidog.com/blog/purcahse-from-the-madson-line-at-your-own-risk/#comment-25118 Bob, When I received the genuine Apple power adapter, the arching did indeed stop. As such, I'm fairly positive that the arching was a result of The Madson Line product. Why did I keep using the faulty Madson Line power supply when it was arching? I was desperate. My startup (http://www.gliffy.com) was in the midst of releasing a new product which turned out to be critical to the survival of the business. There is no way I could simply stop working while I waited for a working power supply to show up. Anyway, the point is that the customer service I experienced was less than ideal. Bob,

When I received the genuine Apple power adapter, the arching did indeed stop. As such, I’m fairly positive that the arching was a result of The Madson Line product.

Why did I keep using the faulty Madson Line power supply when it was arching? I was desperate. My startup (http://www.gliffy.com) was in the midst of releasing a new product which turned out to be critical to the survival of the business. There is no way I could simply stop working while I waited for a working power supply to show up.

Anyway, the point is that the customer service I experienced was less than ideal.

]]> By: Bob http://www.vidog.com/blog/purcahse-from-the-madson-line-at-your-own-risk/comment-page-1/#comment-25117 Bob Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:55:08 +0000 http://www.vidog.com/blog/purcahse-from-the-madson-line-at-your-own-risk/#comment-25117 I don't understand why you would continue to use the power supply if you could hear arcing. Surely you know someone else with another Powerbook and could have borrowed their power adapter to test it out. Perhaps it was a problem with the plug on your mac or a faulty dc board. Anyway I think it's partly your fault for continuing to use the power adapter. It's nice to have some one to blame for the demise of a several year old powerbook. Electronic componants do fail, sometimes all by them selves. I don’t understand why you would continue to use the power supply if you could hear arcing. Surely you know someone else with another Powerbook and could have borrowed their power adapter to test it out. Perhaps it was a problem with the plug on your mac or a faulty dc board. Anyway I think it’s partly your fault for continuing to use the power adapter. It’s nice to have some one to blame for the demise of a several year old powerbook. Electronic componants do fail, sometimes all by them selves.

]]> By: chrisk http://www.vidog.com/blog/purcahse-from-the-madson-line-at-your-own-risk/comment-page-1/#comment-25108 chrisk Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:34:27 +0000 http://www.vidog.com/blog/purcahse-from-the-madson-line-at-your-own-risk/#comment-25108 bell, I don't think this was a virus issue as I had completely reinstalled the operating system several times during the course of my troubles. I still stand by my statement that people should 'steer clear of the madson line'. -chris bell,

I don’t think this was a virus issue as I had completely reinstalled the operating system several times during the course of my troubles. I still stand by my statement that people should ’steer clear of the madson line’.

-chris

]]> By: bell http://www.vidog.com/blog/purcahse-from-the-madson-line-at-your-own-risk/comment-page-1/#comment-25107 bell Tue, 08 Jan 2008 10:32:26 +0000 http://www.vidog.com/blog/purcahse-from-the-madson-line-at-your-own-risk/#comment-25107 Hi, I have been using a madson line power cord for two different Apple G4 Macs, and have had no problems at all; in fact it's great. I've been using it for over a year literally almost constantly, and am about to buy another one after my last Apple power cord broke after the standard six-month grace period. I think it's definitely possible that the power cord was the problem, since it sounds like it was defected from the beginning, and that is more likely than that spontaneously happening to your computer; even though their power cords are crap, Apple does make good computers. It sounds like you may have gotten some kind of virus, almost; when using a faulty/spastic power cord, which I heard and saw arch against my computers innards, I only wore out my battery. Hi, I have been using a madson line power cord for two different Apple G4 Macs, and have had no problems at all; in fact it’s great. I’ve been using it for over a year literally almost constantly, and am about to buy another one after my last Apple power cord broke after the standard six-month grace period. I think it’s definitely possible that the power cord was the problem, since it sounds like it was defected from the beginning, and that is more likely than that spontaneously happening to your computer; even though their power cords are crap, Apple does make good computers. It sounds like you may have gotten some kind of virus, almost; when using a faulty/spastic power cord, which I heard and saw arch against my computers innards, I only wore out my battery.

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