US bought laptop going to England

I have an old Dell 9100 laptop that I may sell to a friend who lives in London.
What is the issue with power differences. Will they just need a power converter to fit the plug shape there, or would they need some kind of different power adapter, or would it not work right?

Any thoughts are appreciated. this person is not someone that knows this type of stuff.


thanks!

 

On the back of the power brick if it says for voltage something like Input 100 - 250V 50/60Hz(think most of them are) all he needs to get is the UK plug & cord that will fit into the power brick OR an adapter to adapt the US socket into a UK plug.

 

That's pretty much it

Although I think if he is going to use it for quite a while, a replacement power cord would be thebetter idea.
(Try not to replace the power brick - that's too expensive)

 

thanks guys

one last question, when I reformatted and reinstalled everything for the new user, I noticed that there were a couple XP options for what country its used in. One was for keyboard and one was for windows - and I picked US still - how different is the UK setting for these things and will this matter, also how can I do it now that Ive already picked them on the setup of Windows???

 

Keyboard setting should match the laptop's physical installed keyboard. UK keyboard has slight different layout than US keyboard. If the laptop has US layout keyboard, then just choose US. If you choose UK layout then some keystrokes will not match between the physical letters on the keys and the output on the screen.

See this link for comparison.

For example, on US keyboard, pressing Shift and 2 keys will result @. But if you have set the keyboard layout to UK, even if the physical keyboard is US, then the same keystokes would result ". Shift and 3 will show £ instead of #.

Whatever setting you have picked while installing the Windows, it can be easily changed later on through Control Panel, so don't be too worry about it.

 

Just use an UK external keyboard, set the language and region to UK within Windows, and you are set.

Or get some keys label stickers!

cheers ...

 

As a New Yorker currently working in the UK I can vouche for that. My work keyboard is a UK layout but I'm logged into my US computer. So the keys that are seemingly mislabled (from a US viewpoint) still give me the US response. But the key between SHIFT and Z responds as labelled (either \ or | (with Shift)).