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Seabass
Joined: 01 Feb 2005
Location: Toronto, Canada
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 Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 12:17 am Post subject: Buying English Only Notebooks in Korea |
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By any chance, is there any places that sell English only notebooks in Korea? I mean with both the English operating system and English only keyboard. I dont want my notebook to have anything Korean. From many posts I've read, its seems quite expensive to ship notebooks from Canada or the US and I hope to avoid that alternative.
Any info would be much appreciated. |
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T-dot
Joined: 16 May 2004
Location: bundang
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| Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 12:44 am Post subject: |
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Dell, is the only one I know of for sure.
Compaq/HP notebooks used come with both, but dont know anymore. |
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ChinaBoy
Joined: 17 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 12:18 pm Post subject: |
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| T-dot wrote: |
| Dell, is the only one I know of for sure. |
How can we do this? Dell's website doesn't mention it. |
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boatofcar
Joined: 20 Dec 2006
Location: Sheffield, UK
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| Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 8:07 pm Post subject: Re: Buying English Only Notebooks in Korea |
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| Seabass wrote: |
| I dont want my notebook to have anything Korean. |
Why? Does having 한글 and the 원 sign really bother you that much? |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 8:51 pm Post subject: |
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My personal method would be to buy any laptop you fancy in Korea, then wipe the hard drive and do a clean install of English OS.
Laptops tend to be swamped with bloatware from the manufacturer. Best to wipe all that and install only what you want.
But, of course, this method is expensive if you are in the habit of actually paying for software...  |
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T-dot
Joined: 16 May 2004
Location: bundang
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| Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2009 10:11 pm Post subject: |
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| ChinaBoy wrote: |
| T-dot wrote: |
| Dell, is the only one I know of for sure. |
How can we do this? Dell's website doesn't mention it. |
When you look over the options, just click on English OS instead of hangul. THey will ship the laptop with English Vista and no hangul on keyboard. I did that about a year and a half ago. |
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Binch Lover
Joined: 25 Jul 2005
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| Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 4:22 pm Post subject: |
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| I just bought a new laptop. When you turn Windows Vista on for the first time, it asks if your language is Korean or English. Everything has been in English since I selected that. As for having Hangeul on the keyboard, what's wrong with that? It's not like you look at the keys when you're typing anyway, right? |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
Location: Someplace you'd rather be.
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| Posted: Wed Jul 22, 2009 6:02 pm Post subject: |
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| T-dot wrote: |
Dell, is the only one I know of for sure.
Compaq/HP notebooks used come with both, but dont know anymore. |
Seriously???? Where did you read that about HP?
We were able to set the language from initial start-up. If the store already set it to Korean, you can go back and do a full reinstall from the service disks (which you may have to burn) or maybe just use the internal reinstall -- the internal might have been all we needed, actually.
You are only allowed so many times to do this by Vista, however, so don't overdo it. |
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kiwigirl :O)
Joined: 05 Jan 2006
Location: Bundang
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| Posted: Thu Jul 23, 2009 6:27 pm Post subject: |
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I bought my compaq in Yongsan....
they dealer I bought it from converted it for me....it took a couple of hours to do so...but its been great....
It useful to have the korean on the keyboard as I use it to email/msn my korean friends all the time....
It was very cheap and I am still happy with it....
fyi: Compaq offers good A/S too in case it is required....
good luck
and it also pays to create the system recovery discs in english asap.... |
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