Im living in japan and i want to buy a japanese laptop and install vista or xp. But from what i heard its not as simple as it seems that you cant just install a english version into the laptop. Problems occur with sound and other functions. Is this true?
2007-03-29 20:29:52 · 3 answers · asked by rfah n 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Laptops & Notebooks
No, if you want English setup all the way on a Japanese laptop it is perfectly fine.
If my experience counts I am using an English language Linux on a Taiwanese Acer laptop I just retire a much older installation of Linux in Chinese on the same laptop; it was originally a surplus computer by a Taiwanese IT company with Chinese Windows 98, by the time I got it as 3rd hand it had Chinese version of Windows ME, erased and installed Mandrake (French company) Linux in Chinese/TW localization, I am in Canada. I've never heard of anything close to what you are concerned about except Japanese DOS era games need Japanese DOS.
2007-03-29 20:51:10 · answer #1 · answered by Andy T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just install and use the English dictionary from your XP disk. Then configure your computer to use it.
I bow to Andy. I use Mandriva. It and I believe XP/Vista can easily be multilingual even with non latin script.
2007-03-30 03:38:49 · answer #2 · answered by salubrious 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I cant see where there would be any problems, of course I have never worked on a pc in Japan either!
2007-03-30 03:33:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋