Originally Posted by
ksandness
On a Mac, at least, the £ symbol is "option+#," and I know there's a euro symbol available with some keystroke or other.
As far as I know, all notebooks automatically adjust to whatever electric current is available.
Before taking my Macbook to the UK, I asked at the Apple store, and they assured me that all I needed was a UK-compatible plug for the power block, and that turned out to be true.
My computer barely knew it was away from home.
Yep, no problem.
US keyboard is so little different from the UK one you soon adapt.
I use UK & US machines in US every month. Main difference on US keyboards is position of @ (shift + 2), and lack of £ (alt+0163 does that), otherwise no prob. I manage fine using both on same day (except maybe after too many blood marys!).
Additional power cord/plug (as mentioned above) is certainly a good idea, but as also posted above voltage difference should not be a problem.
All that said, I notice very little price difference between UK & US, although of course YMMV (just like $:£ rate)