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Old Mar 18, 2006 | 3:40 pm
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redbeard911
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Originally Posted by Peetah
Yes, the 3rd prong is for grounding. Your laptop won't suffer but it might hum.

You need one of these:
http://www.110220volts.com/Merchant2...gnPlugAdapters

I order from them all the time and they're pretty fast about fulfilling your order.
These are great. When in China I had a power strip with this configuration. Very helpful. (Although I paid about $1 for the whole strip. It was China, after all.)
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