why aren't there any easy to find laptop chargers with breakaway plugs on them
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if anyone happens to know where we can get a 180 watt laptop charger with a 5.5×1.7 mm barrel plug that has a breakaway on the laptop side of it, please let us know
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also why the fuck is this apparently not a thing

tripping over power cords has been the cause of three of the four laptops we've had break on us breaking

and the other one had a third-party adapter that used an adapter that functioned as a breakaway

you'd think a breakaway plug would be the obvious thing to use here, so why do we not see more of them?

our current laptop even has a right-angle plug on it which makes it even more prone to such damage
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@Felthry

Perhaps search for 'magnetic' instead of breakaway? Not sure if that will make the difference, but that's the kind I've seen that has that sort of function.

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