It will not fry anything unless you try to connect to the wall power improperly. As I said just look on your AC power adaptor. It says it right on the adaptor.
Electrical appliances typically do not have switching power supplies, and that is why they get fried when you connect them to a 220 V line when they've been designed for 110 V. Hence the need for special power line converters which convert the 220 V to 110 V.
Some wall sockets are designed such that it appears that you can plug in a normal U.S. plug into only one side of the line. They think it might work since each side of the line carries 110 V, but foreign power systems use 50 cycle, not 60 cycle AC and that, too, can damage some U.S. electrical appliances. Travelers who buy converters also don't take into account the power needs. You cannot connect a 1000 watt hair dryer to a 150 watt converter.
Whatever review you read was probably about an old Powerbook AC adaptor that was not a switching adaptor. Or the author didn't know what he was talking about - I'd suspect the latter. Most people today can't set the clocks on their VCRs, let alone know much about electricity and power systems. No offense intended, just an experiential observation.