I love my MacBook Pro, don’t get me wrong. Also, as I’ve said before, I really hate it when people take their problem with their own computer and then extrapolate that and say that all the computers of that kind are having it. Let me be clear: as far as I know, it’s just me. It doesn’t make it suck any less or any less weird.

It would appear the anodized coating on the case is a bit weak on mine and is coming off near the keyboard. I’m talking with Apple about getting it fixed, but in the mean time I thought I’d use that as an opportunity to show the voltage on the case. This is one weird problem. It would appear that when on AC power the case gets a good deal of voltage on it. Sometimes when I’m using it I’ll get hundreds of really weak shocks all over my palms to where it’s kind of numbing. If I change the adapter from the two-prong duckhead to the three-prong extension cable, the issue is mostly resolved. Thus, this is quite obviously a grounding issue. I’m about to get a bunch of the extension cords and leave them everywhere at home and just bring the adapter around to them so that I’m always grounded. In the mean time, here’s some fun.

Apple Defects readers: You are being misled. This is not “a widespread defect” but a simple case of bad grounding and a curious side-effect. I left such a comment on the article and the site owner deleted it. Apple Defects has a long history of censorship and deleting users’ posts when confronted with differing opinions. We need a good issues site and we have one with MacFixIt. Apple Defects is just the brain child of an undeveloped teenager.