[Ti] AlBook Plug problem at high altitude?

[John Griffin]

John McGibney typed this message on 8/9/04 1:24 PM:

>>> So this is just plain weird, and I'm hoping someone can shed some
>>> insight.  I live in Durango, CO, at 6,800 feet above sea level.  I
>>> have 3 friends of mine with 15" AlBooks, and I just got my 1.5ghz 15"
>>> AlBook, and here is the problem we ALL experience:
>>> The power adapter will just come out.  It's like it's all the way in
>>> when it has a mm left, and you give it a good push to finish it off so
>>> that it is charging, but randomly you'll notice that it has gone back
>>> out to the 1mm out position.  I thought this was a general problem,
>>> and was wondering why more people weren't complaining, however, I am
>>> writing this from Hawaii, and the pluug is in solidly, and not coming
>>> out.  So I am led to believe that it is related to Altitude.
>>> 
>>> Theories on what's going on?
>> 
>> Low humidity in Durango?
>> 
>> -Phil Glenn
>> 
> Rocky mountain high?
> 
> 
> Temperature related? Cooler temperatures causing plastic/metal contraction
> problems?

Yeah, I have heard that cold mountain air and high altitudes can cause
shrinkage. But I seem to remember that it referred to human body parts (male
especially), not computer parts.

Not speaking from personal experience, of course.

jg