US laptop in UK

[grizzla]

A friend is out in the US and wants to buy a new laptop, im just wondering if it will work in the UK in regards to power supply

[obvious]

Laptops are built for travelling so it should be fine. The only thing to note is that the keyboard will be US.

[Tak]

And check if the warranty is honoured internationally.

[Steve B]

and it'll come with an american enabled power-brick, so ull need an adaptor

[FatalSaviour]

Will probably need to change the plug, but the power-brick should be fine I would imagine (most bricks are designed to operate from 120-240V, but this should be displayed somewhere on said brick anyway)

[Agent]

Don’t cut the plug off – use an adaptor. Should the power brick break, they wont honour the warranty. These things can be expensive sometimes !

[chrestomanci]

Or you could buy another power brick. Scan to This FSP universal one.

[Funkstar]

every laptop power brick i've seen has either a standard two or three pin socket for a standard power cable (either a kettle lead, a two pin hi-fi style lead, or a weird three pin 'laptop cable').

[nvening]

Most laptops have a seperate kettle plug running off the transformer - Just use a UK kettle plug instead.

Warrenty is different however.