One bad Apple

I love Apple products and I've been a user of thier computers for a long time now. However, the one thing they never get right is to produce a power adapter of the same quality as their computers. My laptop's power adapter has suddenly died and I can see I have 14% of battery power before oblivion kicks in. While I'm waiting for Apple to send me (another) over-priced adapter things will be a little quiet here. Which is a shame because I had this...