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    Vaio in Belgium, in English, please help

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by rafal1000, Jun 23, 2008.

  1. rafal1000

    rafal1000 Newbie

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    Hey all, first post :)

    I'm thinking about getting a sony vaio, the FZ series, possibly the FZ 31Z (or maybe the cheaper S or M variant, not sure yet . If you can, please go to www.sonystyle.be and to the vaio FZ section. I can't link because of their weird URL's....

    I need my laptop to have international QWERTY, and have an English OS. As you see on the list, there is a lot of models, a lot of them duplicates, and some of them have QWERTY. After every product number, there is either an FR, NL, or CEK. I don't see any difference between the NL and CEK, it says they both have English (NL says english OR dutch) and both use QWERTY. Could someone maybe explain to me what I would get different if I ordered the CEK version vs. the NL version. It would really help me, as some CEK versions are said to be out of stock while most NL are still there.

    Thanks a lot!
     
  2. Baserk

    Baserk Notebook user

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    All the CEK versions seem to have UK QWERTY and English OS.
    The Dutch versions seem to have the Dutch/US QWERTY and the option to choose Dutch or English OS.
    Dutch QWERTY is exactly the same as US (also called US international ) QWERTY.
    Both are standard QWERTY as far as letters go but there are some minor differences which can be seen on this Wiki page; link.

    Cheers.