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- 15 inch Macbook Pro (2010), 2.53 GHz Intel Core i5 processor, 4 GB DDR3 RAM
My parents bought me a 2009 macbook pro for graduation in June of this year (2011). It was cheaper to buy an older model. The laptop and the charger were both new, they're just older models. The charger worked great, and gave me no problems, until November of this year. For some reason it began to be temperamental and would only work some of the time. Then it began to shut off my computer at random intervals, with no warning. It would be working just fine, charging or just powering the laptop, then both the charger and laptop would go dead. I have no idea why this is happening. After this happens, the macbook pro won't turn on for about 20 seconds. Every once in a while, if I can get it to work, I'll just turn off the laptop and let it charge so I don't lose anything if it conks out again, and hopefully get a full battery to last me until the stupid thing decides to work again. I recently discovered that, sometimes, if I set the laptop down on a hard surface with the charger plugged in, the impact makes the charger begin to work. This does not affect the laptop in any way, just the charger. This is extremely frustrating because 1) it's only 6 months old and 2) my parents spent quite a bit of money on a product that costs more than competing computer products and claims to "just work." I have 6 months remaining on my warranty, so I can get the charger replaced if that's the problem, but if I'm doing something wrong or if there's a way to know why this is happening I would very much appreciate the knowledge.