Travelling to USA later on in the month, seen some good ads for laptops at silly prices, €400-€500 cheaper then over here. I know there is a power issue but that can be covered off with an adapator and I know enough about PCs and have enough contacts to cover off most support issues, however is there anything else I need to consider, will an American built in Modem work over here for example?
Bought a laptop over there last Nov. Savings were good if not spectacular.
Leave the packaging behind (after you've checked that everything works ok), otherwise you risk getting caught for duty when you come home.
The only thing I needed to do was fix the plug as they come prefitted with an american plug. I just got a pliars, cut off the american plug and wired it to an Irish plug. Works fine. The wires weren't colour coded but there was a tranformer build into the lead so I just took a chance and it worked fine.