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steve&heather
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Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Question about using your mac overseas.
Have any of you used your mac while traveling internationally? If so, have you encountered any issues with our mac while traveling?
We're considering a switch from our crappy dells to macs here at the office, but my boss is wondering about their operation overseas. I don't think there would be any issues, but our resident mac experts only travel domestically and can't help us here.
TIA!
Re: Question about using your mac overseas.
It shouldn't have any problems. Pretty much all laptops (including Macs) are dual voltage, so you only need the plug adapter to use the foreign outlets.
We've traveled with our MacBook for years and have used it in the US as well as various countries in Asia and Europe, and we've never had a problem. If anything, it's easier than traveling with my Dell, because it's a lot lighter! And there are Apple stores and authorized retailers all over the world in case you have any problems. (Since we've moved around since buying our Macs, we've actually purchased accessories, replacement batteries, etc. at Apple stores in other countries!)
Awesome, thanks ladies! He's pretty well sold on making the switch, this was his final concern before making the leap. He'll be all over Europe, Asia, and South America over the next two years so having a reliable piece of equipment will be a boon.
If his really works out well for him, I might make the switch too (at work and at home).
I've travelled with mine (MacBook) to both Israel and England and all I needed was the little plug adaptor thingee (not a transformer). No problems at all.
Everyone should have a Mac. Seriously. How I survived that long on a PC, I have no idea.
Mac actually sells a worldwide travel adapter kit: you just snap the US 110 V plug off the end of the cable and replace it with the plug that corresponds to the country you're traveling in. (I splurged for it and do like it.)
If you don't want to spend the money for the Apple kit, you can always just snap a plug adapter from any travel shop onto your US plug and off you go...but it's sort of a nice accessory to have if you travel frequently and is more streamlined than using a plug + adapter.
Just to make a small correction, it's not a "110-V plug" per se. Just a US or "Type A" plug. The plug and the voltage are completely independent, and since there's a big difference between a plug adapter and a voltage adapter, I don't want anyone to accidentally get confused.