American iBOOK to Ireland

soph

Hi, I am getting an ibook from america (arriving tomorrow).
I'm not sure what the story with the voltage , will i need a converter or just an adapter to fit the 2pin plug?
Hope ye can help, dont wanna buy an adapter incase it will blow the laptop

zAbbo

I got a powerbook a while back, and all you needed was the plug adapter (usa > eu)

JustHalf

I think you can just slap on a Irish plug onto the brick itself. It's designed that way.

Find someone willing to sell/give away their plug or plug+lead from their own laptop. Should work fine.

deRanged

JustHalf wrote:

I think you can just slap on a Irish plug onto the brick itself. It's designed that way.

I've used my irish one in the states that way - I swapped my spare irish plug for an american one. dead handy.

babypink

yeah just use an irish figure 8 lead no probs....i do it that way with my pb

Karoma

the PSU switches automatically; best to use an Irish plug (Fuse..)

Ham'nd'egger

soph wrote:

Hi, I am getting an ibook from america (arriving tomorrow).
I'm not sure what the story with the voltage , will i need a converter or just an adapter to fit the 2pin plug?
Hope ye can help, dont wanna buy an adapter incase it will blow the laptop

Soph, where did you buy it? If it was off Apple on line, they should have supplied you with the standard power adaptor for our current. If not, it's a simple matter of a current adaptor, which any halfway decent elecronic shop will have, and some crap ones like PC World as well lol

Hugh_C

Hamndegger wrote:

it's a simple matter of a current adaptor, which any halfway decent elecronic shop will have, and some crap ones like PC World as well lol

This information is WRONG.

The power supplies are auto-sensing, so all you need to do is stick a figure-8 cord into it and plug it into your socket at home. These power supplies work everywhere.

hc

Ham'nd'egger

hughchal wrote:

This information is WRONG.

The power supplies are auto-sensing, so all you need to do is stick a figure-8 cord into it and plug it into your socket at home. These power supplies work everywhere.

hc

Hughchal, if you had bothered to real all of my quote, I said that if Soph had got a legit machine from Apple, the power source would have been able to cope with our voltage, and adapted to our sockets. If not, I said go get the adaptor socket unit. So in other words, if it doesn't fit, go buy one. Pretty simple, eh?

Hugh_C

Hamndegger wrote:

Hughchal, if you had bothered to real all of my quote, I said that if Soph had got a legit machine from Apple, the power source would have been able to cope with our voltage, and adapted to our sockets. If not, I said go get the adaptor socket unit. So in other words, if it doesn't fit, go buy one. Pretty simple, eh?

My apologies.

I did read it all, and you said current adaptor, which is either misleading or wrong, in my opinion. A current adaptor (to me) is step up/down transformer for changing the current - i.e. from 240v to 110 or vice versa. Not for adapting a two pin to three pin plug. That'd be an adapter plug.

A simple misunderstanding.

hc

Ham'nd'egger

hughchal wrote:

My apologies.

I did read it all, and you said current adaptor, which is either misleading or wrong, in my opinion. A current adaptor (to me) is step up/down transformer for changing the current - i.e. from 240v to 110 or vice versa. Not for adapting a two pin to three pin plug. That'd be an adapter plug.

A simple misunderstanding.

hc

Current as in what is, man! Teach us both to use English Dictionary or Sherlock in future.

rsynnott

Hamndegger wrote:

Hughchal, if you had bothered to real all of my quote, I said that if Soph had got a legit machine from Apple, the power source would have been able to cope with our voltage, and adapted to our sockets. If not, I said go get the adaptor socket unit. So in other words, if it doesn't fit, go buy one. Pretty simple, eh?

I don't think anyone is selling iBooks with non-Apple power supplies, to be honest. (As mentioned before, the power supply Apple suppy will adapt to 230V/50Hz quite happily)