Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!purdue!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!mace.cc.purdue.edu!du4 From: du4@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Ted Goldstein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Was Can I take a Mac to Australia? Now France? Message-ID: <2880@mace.cc.purdue.edu> Date: 11 Aug 89 14:25:21 GMT References: <11457@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> <392@usage.csd.unsw.oz> <7303@microsoft.UUCP> Reply-To: du4@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Ted Goldstein) Organization: Purdue University Lines: 22 In article <7303@microsoft.UUCP> stuartb@microsoft.UUCP (Stuart Burden) writes: >In article <392@usage.csd.unsw.oz> >rees@usage.csd.unsw.oz (Rees Griffiths) writes: >>The voltage problem is a minor one. A separate transformer >>will do. It may not be strictly legal, but there you go. > >The Mac has a switching Power Supply. You do not need a transformer, Rees. > Well, I wasn't following this discussion, but my brother has decided to up and move to France and has asked me to send him his Mac+ and find out what he needs to run it. I was under the impression that only the Mac SE and higher could run on 240V 50Hz with no modification. What is needed to run the Mac+? Will a stepup transformer work? Does the frequency difference matter? Can he buy a European power supply from Apple? And now for the big one: what about his Lacie hard drive? Any and all information about taking American Macs to Europe would be greatly appreciated at this time. Ted Goldstein Purdue University School of Technology du4@mace.cc.purdue.edu