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stuey11
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Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2009 8:14 am Post subject: New Laptop with English windows |
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I'm in the market for a new laptop and would really like it it come with English wndows, preferably XP, not Vista, but Vista will do.
Does anyone know of any outlets that sell laptops with English windows installed on it?? Is it worht trawling arounf Yongsan and asking a few places? |
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climber159
Joined: 02 Sep 2007
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| Posted: Thu Aug 20, 2009 9:31 am Post subject: |
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| A lot of places in Yongsan will install English Windows on a new computer; it just won't be a legitimate copy. If you want to go the legal route you'll have to pay for it (somewhere in the 100,000KRW-150,000KRW range). |
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DCJames
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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| If you buy a new Vista laptop in Korea, the Vista OS setup will allow you to install in your choice of English or Korean. XP laptops don't have this option and you'll have to choose Korean or English - one or the other. |
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MattAwesome
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| vista laptops have options to upgrade to windows 7 or xp. i saw xp is an upgrade beause vista is a steamy pile of cow dung. anyway, the mall at yongsan market will be happy to oblige. just tell them you want english windows. they may or may not want to charge you a little extra. may want to check gmarket too |
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DCJames
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2009 5:11 am Post subject: |
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| MattAwesome wrote: |
| vista laptops have options to upgrade to windows 7 or xp. i saw xp is an upgrade beause vista is a steamy pile of cow dung. anyway, the mall at yongsan market will be happy to oblige. just tell them you want english windows. they may or may not want to charge you a little extra. may want to check gmarket too |
If you buy a Vista laptop and want XP on it, they will give you a fake copy of XP or you WILL have to buy a legit copy of XP.
You CANNOT install XP over Vista (upgrade, downgrade, or whatever..). You have to delete and reformat the entire hard drive to get XP on a laptop that already has Vista on it. This is not easy to do because of driver issues. |
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chaz47
Joined: 11 Sep 2003
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I think it would be possible to order an English OS laptop from Gmarket. I was looking at netbooks on there a while back and saw that a few of them originate in the US. My thinking is that they have to install a Korean OS on them before they ship. If you could talk to the right person maybe you could get one before they wipe it and reinstall Korean XP.
Just a thought. Good luck. |
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