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> then I just need to find another one with Euro-prongs, so that I can save the weight of an adaptor when travelling abroad.

The SMPSU for my little personal media player is a two-prong plug, and comes with a simple mechanical converter for UK plugs.  So it would be lighter on the continent...

Most equipment is labelled with voltage and current requirements (it's a CE marking requirement).  Then you need the plug size and polarity (also usually marked).  The multi-output jobs I've seen come with a huge array of adaptor plugs, so I think you'd only need the voltage and current ratings, and a bit of an experiment to see which plug fitted best.

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Jump into the 21stC with a digital transcriber, no typing, oftef SD based so same as camera, easier to use in the rain than a Psion (not that it rains on your trips if the GR5 weather is anything to go by..), marries with voice recognition software; some even come with camera/video facilities.....

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Ed - I'm always in the market for something that's better than the stuff I already have, but the plain and honest truth is, no-one's ever beaten the old steam-powered Psion. I can type with all my fingers, so a machine where I have to stab letters with one or two fingers is no use. A Psion goes in my pocket, which everything else with a workable keyboard fails to do. Voice recognition is no use when I'm dealing with thousands of 'foreign' placenames, which includes the Lakes! Can I tell it to write in italics or bold? I can work on a route description while sitting in a noisy train station, where I wouldn't want a machine that started writing down everything everyone was saying around me! Only on Monday, a mate of mine was trawling me through electronic stores, where bright young lads were showing off their shiny new kit, and to be brutally honest, the stuff was quite useless, and would slow me up to the point where I wouldn't actually get outdoors in the first place! Rain? Well, that wasn't a problem in the Alps, but when it does rain, the Psion goes in an Ortlieb mapcase and I just type regardless!

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