Type F plug for 85W adapter?

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Type F plug for 85W adapter?

I'm an American teaching English in Korea and I rely heavily on my lovely little 15.4" Macbook Pro (1.83 CoreDuo.) It's a big pain to drag the machine and power adapter back and forth to and from the school every day, so I'm thinking about buying an extra power adapter..or maybe just an extra AC cord. My question is:

does Apple offer an AC cord with a type F plug (CEE 7/4 "Schuko") for 85W magsafe power adapters?

In Korea standard outlets accept type F, C, and E plugs. Currently I am relying on a cheap little adapter (type C) that not only looks unreliable and dangerous but is a pain in the butt to have sticking on the end of my standard U.S. type B AC cord. Probably a stupid question, but I have looked around on Ebay and poked around on Apple's site a bit, but I've been unsuccessful. I can't use their Korean site because my Korean is not all that good.

1.83 GHz MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.6), 85W Magsafe power adapter

Posted on Mar 30, 2009 11:31 PM

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Answer 1

iVmichael

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Mar 30, 2009 11:55 PM in response to Mike0315

Type F plugs/power cords for the MagSafe adapter are supplied by Apple in Germany, Iceland, Latvia, Finland, Chile, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain and Sweden so it should be possible to purchase just the power cord/plug directly from a store in one of those countries ?

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Mar 31, 2009 3:22 AM in response to Mike0315

The Apple World Travel Adapter Kit has a duckhead plug for Korea (the round thick pins, which is different than the round thin pins for continental Europe).

http://store.apple.com/us/product/M8794G/B

Here's the pdf manual for the adapter kit, showing the difference:

http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/WorldTravel_Adapter_KitUG.pdf

Here's the 85 W MagSafe Adapter in the Korean Store - the picture shows a US-type plug, though (perhaps they simply didn't bother with a different image?)

http://store.apple.com/kr/product/MA938KH/A

The stores for EU countries do show the correct plug, e.g.:

http://store.apple.com/es/product/MA938Z/A

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Mike0315 Author

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Mar 31, 2009 8:01 PM in response to neuroanatomist

I'd rather not buy the whole kit, but maybe that's my only choice and I guess it might come in handy in the future. It would be cheaper than ordering a whole 'nother adapter kit from one of the Euro online stores. That's not to mention the fact that I wouldn't have to convert any currency or deal with the fact that my bank account is foreign. I just kind of wish I could order the AC cord ONLY from a site in English and pay in U.S. dollars. Maybe that's too much to ask, though....

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Apr 1, 2009 4:13 AM in response to Mike0315

Except for the World Travel Adapter Kit, the individual parts (AC cords and "duck head" connectors like those in the kit) are not available online.

If you're willing to call Apple Phone Sales in the US, they might be able to sell the proper cord or duck head connector. I know they can for the North American parts; the kbase article below lists the Apple part numbers for the cords/connectors for the US (there's no corresponding kbase article for those part numbers worldwide), and probably Apple Phone Sales can cross-reference the correct part number for Korea if you give them the US information.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2346

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