Comments on: International Power!

By: My recent trip to Europe: What worked and what didn’t? | The Iphone Blog

My recent trip to Europe: What worked and what didn’t? | The Iphone Blog — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:00:50 +0000

[...] already covered the converters I recommend here. However, I have to say that the Apple World Travel Adapter Kit and this Adapter/USB universal [...]

By: Mike Lao

Mike Lao — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:46:31 +0000

nice tip! i travel too so i tend to bring something similar to “transformer”, of course, without the USB port. however, i also bring the belkin portable plug with me… it’s pretty useful when traveling.

also, for the macs, i suggest bringing the long extension cord that comes with laptops. sometimes, the outlets in hotels are hard to reach and it’s useful to have that long cord to charge the laptop.

By: Jim Cutler

Jim Cutler — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:59:45 +0000

Terry,

Me too on the Mac airline adapter, I’ve been lugging it for years and never found a socket UNTIL this month! American Airlines equipped wifi jets have them under your seat but you’d never know they were there in a million years. A small decal above you next to the ROW numbers says that a power source is available under your seat. The socket is the large diameter opening that accepts what looks like a car 12v socket, but as we know it’s special. It worked GREAT. I also own the transformer you linked to and that worked perfectly in France and the UK.

Jim

By: Tony Pettis

Tony Pettis — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 18:51:06 +0000

I recently took a trip to Israel and had all kinds of problems. I’m not a Mac guy, so I took a power converter that my wife had bought at Brookstone with me. I had a hard time getting it to fit into the outlets in the Israeli hotels. When I was finally able to get it to fit, I made the mistake of leaving my laptop plugged in all night. What I didn’t know is that if a laptop isn’t draining the power from use or from charging the internal battery, the converter is sending so much juice to the adapter that it fries it. Luckily, there was someone else on my 10-day trip that had a similar computer, so we were able to share adapters. But that’s something that everyone should be aware of. Don’t leave an American computer plugged into an international plug overnight!

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:53:54 +0000

I’ve been on a bunch of planes with them.. There usually under the seat and hard to see unless you look for them.

Sometimes it’s only a couple of rows so you should check this site http://www.seatguru.com/articles/in-seat_laptop_power.php and call the airline and get put in one of those seats with access. Using this site and calling I’ve usually been able to get power.