Sony BZ Series keyboard & other questions

Hello all,

I have been lurking the forums for a bit and finally decided to register. If there's a place that can answer my questions I'm quite certain it's here.

I am looking at getting a Sony BZ series here in the USA. I can't help but notice most of the pictures of the computer have a weird looking keyboard with two extra keys next to the enter key. I am used to seeing keys in the sequence of ASDF GH JKL;' ENTER. The BZ series pictures I keep seeing show the same sequence except after the "L" there appears to be @ and ~ then an awkward enter key.

Is that a standard design for the USA vaio ? Does anyone here reside in the US and have the BZ series they would be willing to snap me a picture of?


Also, the unit comes with Vista 32bit. I was going to order with 4gigs of memory and upgrade to windows 7 64bit. Is that possible ? Will the machine run it?


Thanks for any help !

 

Nope that's not the standard design. I've got a US one and it's a standard keyboard here.

You could upgrade it to Win7 64-Bit just fine. In fact some of the newer ones (BZ540 or BZ570's) have an option for a free Win7 upgrade, but I'm not sure yet if you get the 64-bit version of the 32-bit version with your upgrade.

 

I was hoping to get the 64 bit version to allow the computer to run 4 gigs of memory.

Any opinions on the LED display? Is it glossy or matte?

No one @ Sony can answer that.