Going overseas with my macbook pro and need adapter

[AppleFreak89]

Thanks for all your help guys!!

 

[manni]

Hi - I was reading this thread to try to work out about the safety etc of different countries' power supplies.

It seems little to worry about in terms of just using those cheap power adapters.

However, the ones I have normally have stuff like "not for permanent use" etc put on them. I travel a lot and in the coming year expect to spend months at a time abroad, mainly France then Chile/Argentina. Is it likely any issues will arise from having a MBP 13 charging via a travel adapter with the UK power brick thing in those countries if I am doing it everyday for a few months?

Probably a dumb question but if I'm honest I don't really understand how electricity works!

 

[rmitchell248]

Hi - I was reading this thread to try to work out about the safety etc of different countries' power supplies.

It seems little to worry about in terms of just using those cheap power adapters.

However, the ones I have normally have stuff like "not for permanent use" etc put on them. I travel a lot and in the coming year expect to spend months at a time abroad, mainly France then Chile/Argentina. Is it likely any issues will arise from having a MBP 13 charging via a travel adapter with the UK power brick thing in those countries if I am doing it everyday for a few months?

Probably a dumb question but if I'm honest I don't really understand how electricity works!

I was living in Turkey and now just moved to Germany this month. Both places use the same adapters that I posted a photo of earlier in this thread. I have been using them full time for a few years. Right now here on my desk I have my 24LED, 27iMac, 17 MBP all plugged into adapters running full time. Throughout the house we have 4 or 5 different iphone chargers running on the same adapters plugged in full time as well.. NO ISSUE at all.

These are just adapters and they do not convert power in any way what so ever they simply adapt different plug styles so the power simply flows through them. All of the voltage conversion is done inside of the Apple transformer that you use everyday to run your computer at home.

 

[manni]

I was living in Turkey and now just moved to Germany this month. Both places use the same adapters that I posted a photo of earlier in this thread. I have been using them full time for a few years. Right now here on my desk I have my 24LED, 27iMac, 17 MBP all plugged into adapters running full time. Throughout the house we have 4 or 5 different iphone chargers running on the same adapters plugged in full time as well.. NO ISSUE at all.

These are just adapters and they do not convert power in any way what so ever they simply adapt different plug styles so the power simply flows through them. All of the voltage conversion is done inside of the Apple transformer that you use everyday to run your computer at home.

OK cool, thanks for your reply. That makes sense, guess I'm just being paranoid but with the cost of these laptops I wanted to be careful!

 

[boarderb]

Exactly what I've been using for 2 months while studying abroad in Europe. Has been the same 2 prongs universal for France, London, Italy, and the Netherlands.

Attached picture shows my arrangement for travel and home, because it gives me more length / room to maneuver.

Cheap and practical and no voltage converters needed.