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    Acer Aspire 5739g (734G50MN) - Question about converting from Europe to UK

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by lovsn, Aug 1, 2009.

  1. lovsn

    lovsn Notebook Enthusiast

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    I've been looking at getting the new Acer Aspire 5739G-734G50MN, and did some searching to find that it's just come on sale in the UK (where I live)

    For example, it's sold here

    In the UK it comes with an nVidia GeForce GT 130M graphics card, but I noticed that the same model is now onsale in Germany (see here) but with the new NVIDIA® GeForce® GT240M graphics card.

    For the same money, it's a pretty big difference in the graphics card, so I was wondering if anyone can offer an opinion on how difficult it would be, if I bought the German version, to convert it for UK use?

    The things I can think of are

    a) Getting a 2 pin to 3 pin power adaptor (most laptops have dual voltage power supplies so this should be fine)
    b) Converting the keyboard layout (for example, just changing the Euro and Pound symbols over)
    c) Converting the default language settings from German to British (a fairly standard Windows option IIRC)

    Is there anything else I am missing?

    I have family going to stay at a friend's place in Germany at the end of August so could get them to bring it back no problem
     
    lovsn, Aug 1, 2009
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