What to be careful about when buying laptop in the US and then taking it to Europe?

Sunshine528: What to be careful about when buying laptop in the US and then taking it to Europe?
I am planning on buying a laptop soon and will take it with me to Europe quite often. Is there something that I need to be careful with when taking it to Europe? Will DVDs bought in Europe play on this laptop?

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Answer by bestonnet_00
The international warranty will only be valid outside the US for US citizens (which if your not a US citizen and the computer breaks down in Europe is really going to cause you a lot of trouble).

I wouldn’t expect DVDs bought in Europe to play on it (at least not without changing the setting so that DVDs bought in the US won’t play, and you can only do that a limited number of times).

In terms of power supply you probably won’t have any problems just using dumb plug adapters (which are pretty cheap), laptop power supplies tend to be able to handle any voltage and frequency you can find anywhere in the world. Though if you plug something other than your laptop bought in the US into the plug adapters make sure it can handle 230 V (or 220 V or 240 V, they’re all now the same thing) and 50 Hz (otherwise you’ll hear a bang and see smoke) and that if it has a switch to select input voltage that it is set to 230 or 220 or 240 not 110 or 115 or 100 or 127.

Answer by Bag Addict
I would buy a carrying bag from Custom-Kingdom.com, they’re very sleek and will fit in the carry-on compartment with no troubles. I’ve never had trouble taking mine out of the country, but I always keep it onboard with me.