magsafe caught on fire!

HOLY #$%@! I can only say I'm glad you were right there. I'm pretty sure I would be doing more than "talking". Now I'm worried about leaving my MBP connected when I'm away.....Would be most interested to hear their response to this.

This has been known to happen in extreme rare cases. Apple will happily replace your power adapter.

Just to be on the safe side, I get them to run some diagnostics on your system to make sure nothing was harmed as your laptop is succeptible to voltage spikes. Hard drives are notorious for popping up with bad sectors have even low quality power supplies.

Last thing you want is something to show up down the line in your hardware that translates to possibly losing all your data.

Personally, there would be no way I would happlessly continue using my laptop if that had happened without a thorough analysis that all my hardware was prim and proper.

Aren't you glad they developed the magsafe technology? Just yank the cable and "pop," off it comes 😉

r u shure that you were gental with the cord? looks like me that it was pulled hard or something.... trust me im the first to accuse apple.... but it looks like th cord has been damaged.... sorry im bored and have nothing else to write

I have been concerned about my magsafe as well the end of my power adapter right at the end of the (too short IMHO) strain relief gets a good workout. It kinked shortly after buying the MBP and continued work will break the conductors inside causing what you saw.

I think the magsafe is a good idea but the strain relief needs to be longer. Much longer.

MBP Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Holy smokes...

Looks like what happened is that the cable on the end took a sharp 90° turn, thereby breaking the cable which caused a short in the wire, triggering a spark.

This is the first I've seen it, but not the first I've heard of it.

As stated, Apple will replace the adapter.

i thnk apple should recall them and replace them with longer plastic rings then the short ones inside the connectors now which do not prevent the wires from getting too twiste dup to the point where they shirt out.

I see lumps on mine from it twisting around, it seems to not twist back straight no matter what i try to do to it, and i fear this exact problem here may happen by surprise.

i had the EXACT same thing happen too mine. Luckily nothing was harmed on the computer and they sent me a replacement power cord ASAP. Still a little scary though!