Q_01:
Do Mac laptops still come with the funky magnetic power plug?
Q_02:
Which was the first Intel Mac laptop? Did it come with the magnet-plug? Is it easy to install linux on it?
Background:
SWMBO has done it again: tripped over the laptop power brick/cord and rendered her lappy useless (IBM Thinkpad T41 bought refurbed). The power interface dealie has loosened and will no longer make the power connection. This is the second laptop SWMBO has done this to, batting 1.000 on this method for laptop whacking.
FTR, I am NOT good with a soldering iron, despite several attempts to get handy with one. A neighbor currently has her first lappy and is working on fixing it at his leisure.
I want a laptop that is pretty much "trip over the cord and fubar's the power connection"-proof. I thought that perhaps a used Toughbook, but they would likely end up the same. A used intel Mac laptop seems a logical way to go.