Let a friend borrow a charger,now it wont work for my netbook. Help?

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Sounds like the Laptop your friend plugged into “burned out” the charger. The Mac Book Pro 13” charger cannot be used to charge a MBP 15” or 17”, not enough output. Result is a brick for a charger.

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