The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    International Options

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by KajaSheen, Aug 28, 2008.

  1. KajaSheen

    KajaSheen Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    5
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Hi Fellows,

    is it possible to order international laptops in the US somehow? I am a German doing an internship in the US. I really would like to get a Z Series Laptop while I am here (they are much cheaper than in Germany) but the problem comes from the new keyboard with the seperated inputs. I guess these are not easily replacable because the holes are directly in the chassis, right?

    The problem now is that the US QWERTY keyboards have one important key less than the German QWERTZ keyboard and the arrangement of the "Enter" key is slightly different. (refer to Wikipedia and check out the lower left side where "shift" is in the US...

    Now I am either out of luck, which would totally suck for Sony. Or someone can point me in the right direction where I could get a Z with either a Spanish keyboard, and if I read it right all day long than the Z575 looks like it has a keyboard Layout I want...

    But right now searching a little more, I came across this, which looks like I can replace the whole top cover.

    Can someone please either confirm or deny this? What should I do?

    Thanks!
     
    KajaSheen, Aug 28, 2008
    #1