Dad, you might find this helpful for traveling to Italy.

thanks Richard Tong

Airplane PowerMobility Electronics of these overseas planes now have airplane power which for some bizarre reason don't use standard connectors, so you need to buy some strange monster connector that connects to 12VDC in a car, in a plane etc.iGo Everywhere Power seems to be the common one. There are quite a few different models and the main issue is what they weigh, so if you want airpower and for it to replace the standard charger, small machines need the Juice 70 and big notebooks need the 7500:7500. This is the burliest power supply, I don't actually need anything that big and it weights over a pound!Juice 70. this is the most appropriate for smaller notebooks. Pricegrabber shows it at about $65.