Sony :: Canadian Vaios"Bilingual" Keyboard
Jan 27, 2009
I just came across a disturbing photo in the big Z series thread of a so-called "Canadian" keyboard littered with far too many labels and colors, all in the name of being bilingual.
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My question is, is this really what Sony Canada is sending out on any notebook listed with a bilingual keyboard? It's horrible! Not only is it far more confusing to figure out what's where, but it has the European L-shaped Enter key and repositioned backslash which I simply cannot live with (20 years using keyboards the "other way" have pretty much conditioned me).
I guess they got tired of making a custom model for 23% of the population, and would rather annoy the other 77%.
My Canadian SZ160P I bought 3 years ago came with a "normal" keyboard, I was completely surprised to find this out now. And just after I had talked myself out of the Dell Studio XPS 13.
Is there ANY WAY to get a English keyboard in Canada? CTO maybe?
Or am I simply going to have to buy from the US and deal with having no warranty, because there is no sale with that keyboard...
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Feb 1, 2010
The question is, in case the title is throwing you off. Where do the Canadian shipments from Dell come in from? The point of origin within the US.
The reason I ask is because obviously my package is comming in at some point but it was put on the truck at 9:11AM EST and depending on the distance ( and customs ) it could be here either tomorrow(as seen with some other members) or later this week.
Normally My packages are sent out on the friday and received on the monday or tuesday.
This is the first time dell's shipped out a pc for me on a weekday not preceeding a weekend
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I'm using a Vaio Z, which is docked when at my desk into a 24" monitor and separate keyboard and mouse.
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Just a simple USB keybaord, but very nice indeed, even has an S1 button.
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I have been lurking the forums for a bit and finally decided to register. If there's a place that can answer my questions I'm quite certain it's here.
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I just got my sony Vaio CTO Z series. I have just used for 3 hours and I can see oily patches on my key area with finger print. I tried heading Sony center to check on there display set, it's horrible as if few thousand people has touched the laptop, all the oily finger print.
Are there any solution to this? I dare not want to use alcohol because it seems the keyboard are quite frigale.
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Dont you hate it when the keys get all shiny with normal use?
I was of getting clear keyboard stickers for my new Z:
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I'm trying to find a keyboard cover for my SR.
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I did some search on this topic and couldn't come up with similar issue.
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This is really for a tech but surely there would be someone out there who would know whether this is possible or not.
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