<p>In this episode of the Hardware Podcast, we talk with <a href="http://www.righto.com/">Ken Shirriff</a>, a software engineer at Google and writer of a fascinating series of electronics teardowns. His posts on power supplies, like Apple’s <a href="http://www.righto.com/2015/11/macbook-charger-teardown-surprising.html">MacBook</a> and <a href="http://www.righto.com/2014/05/a-look-inside-ipad-chargers-pricey.html">iPad</a> chargers, offer detailed looks at how the real things differ from counterfeits. And his writeup of <a href="http://www.righto.com/2013/06/teardown-and-exploration-of-magsafe.html">Apple’s remarkably complex Magsafe connector</a> is illuminating.</p>

In this episode of the Hardware Podcast, we talk with Ken Shirriff, a software engineer at Google and writer of a fascinating series of electronics teardowns. His posts on power supplies, like Apple’s MacBook and iPad chargers, offer detailed looks at how the real things differ from counterfeits. And his writeup of Apple’s remarkably complex Magsafe connector is illuminating.

<p>In this episode of the Hardware Podcast, we talk with <a href="http://www.righto.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer">Ken Shirriff</a>, a software engineer at Google and writer of a fascinating series of electronics teardowns. His posts on power supplies, like Apple’s <a href="http://www.righto.com/2015/11/macbook-charger-teardown-surprising.html" rel="noopener noreferrer">MacBook</a> and <a href="http://www.righto.com/2014/05/a-look-inside-ipad-chargers-pricey.html" rel="noopener noreferrer">iPad</a> chargers, offer detailed looks at how the real things differ from counterfeits. And his writeup of <a href="http://www.righto.com/2013/06/teardown-and-exploration-of-magsafe.html" rel="noopener noreferrer">Apple’s remarkably complex Magsafe connector</a> is illuminating.</p>

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