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bringing laptop abroad...

  • 09-06-2008 6:45pm
    #1
    disco--dave
    Closed Accounts Posts: 25 ✭


    ahoy,
    just wondering if anyone has any advise on bringing laptops abroad?? It'd be much appreciated.
    thanks,

    Dave.


Comments

  • #2
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85,174 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    See Post #8

    Its what laptops were made for, tbh.


  • #3
    mosfo
    Registered Users Posts: 33 ✭mosfo


    hi,

    the only problem you might have is the differing voltages. ire/uk have 220v (to 250) as standard while many other countries have 110. you'll have to make sure your power supply can handle both. i think most, if not all, can these days. ibm's certainly do. you'll also need a socket adapter thingamejiggy.


  • #4
    mosfo
    Registered Users Posts: 33 ✭mosfo


    advise = advice


  • #5
    Tom Dunne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,212 ✭✭✭✭Tom Dunne


    mosfo wrote: »
    hi,

    the only problem you might have is the differing voltages. ire/uk have 220v (to 250) as standard while many other countries have 110. you'll have to make sure your power supply can handle both. i think most, if not all, can these days. ibm's certainly do. you'll also need a socket adapter thingamejiggy.

    99.9% of laptops made in the past five years can handle dual voltage, so this is not really a concern.


  • #6
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 85,174 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Either way it will display on your adapter what voltages it can accept. the typical Input range is 100-240V


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  • #7
    mosfo
    Registered Users Posts: 33 ✭mosfo


    "think most, if not all, can these days"


  • #8
    sliabh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,011 ✭✭✭sliabh


    There are a few countries funny about laptops. I did see two government officials spend 20 minutes filling out forms to get their laptops out of Cuba. Probably national resources there.

    But for most places you will be fine other than worrying about power.


  • #9
    Tom Dunne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,212 ✭✭✭✭Tom Dunne


    mosfo wrote: »
    advise = advice

    I know you are new around here, but please don't do things like that. It really irritates people.


  • #10
    Spud83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,608 ✭✭✭Spud83


    I would say it depends on what kind of travelling you are doing, and making sure you will have a secure location to leave it when you are out an about.

    So if you are staying in a hotel with a room safe then yeah you are probably good, if you are staying in a hostel and are going to be sharing your room I would think twice about it.


  • #11
    sliabh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,011 ✭✭✭sliabh


    Tom Dunne wrote: »
    I know you are new around here, but please don't do things like that. It really irritates people.
    ...and you might as well fart in a hurricane as try to get people to use proper spelling and punctuation on the Internet :-)


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  • #12
    mosfo
    Registered Users Posts: 33 ✭mosfo


    it was the beer that done it


  • #13
    mumhaabu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,031 ✭✭✭mumhaabu


    Laptops are fine but people become to reliant on them and next thing op they are stolen go missing and a lifetimes work is lost.

    You should always backup regularly on a laptop and as for security you can get cables which you can anchor them to a fixed object and encryption software so if it is stolen at least your data might not be, most are reformatted and flogged on the blackmarket anyway.

    As for Hotel safes 99% of my experiences of those safes are quite often they are too small for a laptop and the hotels safety deposit box is a better bet. I have had hotel safes where I couldn't even fit my digital slr camera. they are geared towards cash, passports, ipods etc. Unless you go for one of those sleek uber small (less than A4 size) laptops from Sony.


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