> Am I better off buying a laptop in the UK or can the language be switched back to English with a key stroke? Hi James, Easy answer – no If you’re using Microsoft then there isn’t any easy way of changing the language of the menus etc. You can get a copy of XP in China for about $30 so making the languages inter-changeable would flood the market with those copies (perfectly legally). I bought a new laptop here and reinstalled an English copy of Windows. Alternatively you can get a free copy of Ubuntu (HYPERLINK "http://www.ubuntu.com/"http://www.ubuntu.com) and put that on there. I do that with another machine of mine. You can request a free disk through their website and try it out (you just boot off the disk, no need to install) – it’s actually pretty good now and works as a good substitute for Windows. One obvious advantage though to buying a Russian laptop is having Cyrillic alternatives on the keys. If you need to learn/write in Russian it’s much harder with an English-only keyboard. Best Regards, Nick CEO e3internet http://www.e3internet.com P please consider the environment - do you really need to print this email?
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