Need a UPS for MacBook Pro... suggestions?

OK, heres one for you tech guys. We are heading from the US to Albania... read frequent brownouts, outages daily, surges, spikes, you name it- generally crappy power quality. So we have a host of little darling toys that we would like not to be destroyed by such bad behavior and it looks like a surge protector is not sufficient and that a good UPS might be the solution.
We dont need to necesarily keep running, just shut down or protect the batteries as they charge and protect a couple of external drives.
We have 2 MBP's 2 printers 2 external drives (plus a few ipad/pod/ phones randomly charging).
Any thoughts? Sounds like some will actually detect the outage and shut the computer down automatically? How about line-interactive vs on-line..... ?
For an extra bonus: the voltage there is 240v and we will have transformers to step the voltage down. Any problems you can see with this? Transformer to surge protector to UPC the way to go?
Open to suggestions and ideas of any specifc models that have worked for other folks.
Appreciate the help.

I just ordered the HP C410a from Amazon.
It was rated very high on the list of Consumer Reports tested printers.
The Epson Workforce 845 was not tested, But the Workforce 840 and 835 were 2/3's down the list of approx.54 all-in-ones. They only rated fair at most of the printers functions. They had a $1.00 more per month ink cost then the HP. The HP, I linked, was rated very good to excellent on all it's function tests and placed 4 from the top of the list.
Interesting to me, out of the 54 printers not many had a fax function!
How can you say you are an all-in-one when you only scan, copy and print? I know faxing is less used these days but I still need it on occasion.
DALE

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