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I'm seeing more and more of these things:

http://mactalk.com.au/forums/showthread.php?t=28926

I'm not sure why this isn't getting national attention but I know there are a bunch of Mac users here so a word of warning. Be very careful with charging your MacBook/MacBook Pro. Check to make sure your MagSafe connector isn't getting frayed at the "joint".

You can find similar experiences searching the Apple Support Forums such as:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3316077
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=832039&tstart=30
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3108649

You can also Google on "macbook" and "fire" and find many other examples.

Edit: typo

I can think of a thousand snarky responses that may be the reason this isn't getting national attention but not a single good reason.

It's entirely possible that one of my snarky reasons could be correct though.

As luck would have it, my power adapter melted down the other evening. I noticed because I got the battery warning message, presumably a couple of hours after it happened. Thought I must have yanked the connector out at some point, and looked, was still there, but no light... and melted. Basically where the wire meets the mag-safe connector was brown and deformed. I bought a new power adapter the next day, and noticed that the rubber shroud was twice as long as the old one was. Doesn't necessarily mean they changed anything - could just be sloppy tolerances. The guy who ended up with a torched MacBook presumably had more than one thing go wrong. Awesome.

Hmm, I have 2 MBP (both recently purchased)… …and have not seen anything like this, though I did see some pics a few months ago of some hideously mangled mag connectors…