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
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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
Laptops are built for travelling so it should be fine. The only thing to note is that the keyboard will be US.
And check if the warranty is honoured internationally.
and it'll come with an american enabled power-brick, so ull need an adaptor
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)
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 !
Or you could buy another power brick. Scan to This FSP universal one.
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').
Most laptops have a seperate kettle plug running off the transformer - Just use a UK kettle plug instead.
Warrenty is different however.