Batteries and Power

[farmgirl]

I an a newbie to laptops in general.  I want to take my Toshiba to Denmark.  How do I keep the battery charged?  Do I simply use a converter plug?  what about power surging?  My hairdryer has a switch to change from AC to DC--anything on the laptop to switch?   Don't want to fry the thing on the first day!

[ChristopherC]

Your notebook's power adapter is a univeral type.  If you look at the label, you will see that it is rated for 100-240 volts, 50-60 hertz.  This means that all you will need is a simple plug adapter.  On a trip to Italy I picked one up at a local bottega for about a Euro and a half.  That compared with the airport shop in Newark that wanted $60 for a set of worldwide adapters in a nice carrying case.  You shouldn't have any trouble surges or line anomalies in Europe.