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Will my iMac work in Canada?

  • 25-08-2012 4:20pm
    #1
    Sunster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 100 ✭✭


    I own a iMac with intel core i3 from Mid 2010. I am emigrating to Canada and wondering if I should take it with me.
    I know my audio visual stuff will not travel but heard iMacs have internal converters will allows them to travel. Just seeking some confirmation from our board of experts.


Comments

  • #2
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Check the input voltage on the back, if it's 100-240V 50/60Hz then you're good. Chances are it is.


  • #3
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,624 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    Your 2010 i3 iMac is multivoltage and autosensing, just buy a new power cord when you get to Canada, plug it in and away you go....

    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1981

    Slap on the wrist time: found that Apple link by doing a Google search for 'imac multivoltage' - it was the second hit.


  • #4
    Zapp Brannigan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,326 ✭✭✭Zapp Brannigan


    You don't even have to buy a different cable I don't think. I just threw an adapter on the plug for my MBP.


  • #5
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,624 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    Zapp Brannigan wrote: »
    You don't even have to buy a different cable I don't think. I just threw an adapter on the plug for my MBP.

    Of course that is correct but if he's emigrating he'd be as well to leave the old cables with the UK plugs behind. A new cable isn't going to cost much more than an adapter.

    Power sockets tend to be closer together in Europe and the US/Canada than in the UK & Ireland because the plugs are smaller. If the OP takes his Irish power cable with an adapter and plugs it into a socket board or multi-socket wall panel in Canada, he may find that the adjacent sockets are unusable because of the space the plug+adapter takes up, he would be much better off buying a local power cable.


  • #6
    Sunster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 100 ✭✭Sunster


    Thanks guys. Very reassuring


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