HI Anouk, Well, at least one other list member in Germany bought his Mac while visiting the U.S. There are two parts to the power cable -- a power brick and an extension cable. The power brick has a plug attachment, and there is a European plug attachment that can go into the connector, which uses a figure-8 plug insert. I think these are also called duck-head plugs or IEC-C7 plugs. If you feel the power brick without the plug inserted, there's basically a small section of the rectangular brick cut away, with an indentation for the figure-8 plug connection to get inserted. Apple sells a world travel adapter kit that allows you to switch between 6 different plug connectors for Europe, North America, China, the UK, Korea, Australia, and Hong Kong. (As far as I know, you can't buy individual plugs separately, and the travel adapter kit seems overpriced at $39.00, but my local Apple Store put some of these on sale five years ago at substantial discount.) Here's the link in the U.S. Store:
http://store.apple.com/us/product/M8794G/B Buying a travel adapter plug that switches from U.S. to Continental European plug configuration is cheaper, and also works; you can put this on the end of either the U.S. adapter plug, or the end of the extension cable (which has 3-prongs -- just insert the 2 with blades into the travel adapter plug), and insert into an outlet. I've used this with my (U.S.) MacBook in Europe. I think you can also use the figure-8 plug from any other laptop and connect it into the power brick -- for example, the cord from my Lenovo ThinkPad can plug into the MacBook power brick instead of the ThinkPad power brick and power it, but this might be less safe for warranty coverage. You can certainly just buy an extra Apple MagSafe power adapter for the MacBook at your local Apple Store. I do know of people in Europe who bought Apple Products through the U.S. Amazon Store and had them shipped. This was the fastest way to get the new Nano 4G in large capacity when it first came out for some folks. There are links for Amazon Mac products from the macintouch.com web page at: http://www.macintouch.com/ Look under Amazon Updates. HTH Cheers, Esther On Jul 17, 2009, at 14:55, a radix wrote: > Hello GREAT so this could mean I could buy a mac in the states (much > cheaper because of euro-dollar) have it shipped to me and then buy > apple care here in nl? (I would of course have to find a company > willing to do this or an apple which is less then one year old, or > is apple care not transferrable? I would have to find a new charger > I guess but I think as long as the charger accepts nl ac input it > should be ok since the laptop normally has a much lower voltage > which i think is not different per ocuntry. > Thanks > Greetings, Anouk, > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Alex Jurgensen > To: [email protected] > Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2009 1:51 AM > Subject: Re: mac support/warranty, does it matter where you buy? > > Hi, > > According to a person working at my local Apple Store, you can buy > it anywhere and it will work internationally, though Apple recomends > you buy in the country you are living in. Note: AppleCare can be > bought within the first 11 Months, so you can buy the Mac in another > country, ship it with its coverage still being covered, and then buy > AppleCare. > > Regards, > Alex, > > > On 17-Jul-09, at 11:32 AM, a radix wrote: > >> Hello everyone, >> >> I wonder if it is advisable to buy a macbook pro from the appl >> eonline store or an apple stor ein general or if it is ok to buy >> one just anywhere? The apple store is not very accessible for me bu >> tI could order by phone although, of course I would like to find >> the cheapest place to buy one, lol. I guess apple gives support no >> matter where you have bought your laptop, as long as it is, for me >> for example, within th eNetherlands? I also wonder about warranty, >> is it still only one year standard. I find that kind of meager, in >> europe most costly stuff like this has standard 2 years, although >> to be honest some other laptop companies do persist in only giving >> one year as well. Is it possible to get on site warranty or is it >> pick up and return or maybe even carry in? >> >> Thanks again for all the help, >> >> Greetings, Anouk, >> >> >> >> > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
