Party Vibe

sorry to hear this – always a hassle (you may have read on the main forum about how that PC blew up at my work during the storms, despite there being multiple surge protectors on every circuit)

also with heavily loaded machines, if the voltage drops whilst a device is trying to draw the same amount of power, the current will increase until something blows :yakk: I think the problem is often PSUs in all sorts of equipment are designed to be “just good enough” rather than slightly overspecified – and unless you actually have a whole test lab its hard to tell whether the specifications on the box are even true!

at work we can afford to double up certain items of equipment but at home its harder to afford that… (and you do pay a big price premium for macs, both in hardware and software, as pretty as they are – plus I managed to crash my mates one at least twice when using it just to edit photos…)