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[Question] SonyStyle Honk Kong
Does everyone of you know if they sell the SZ160 with a US international Keyboard or with an Asian Keyboard? or is it possible to choose between the 2? Because I'm gonna order it from honk kong as I live in Belgium and have friends who lived their, it would be 800$ cheaper for me (and it wont came out before one month in Belgium..)...
Thank you in advance for helping me!
ps: sorry for my bad english, its not my native language..
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i don't think the one from sony style Hong Kong is SZ160
i believe it's SZ18GP/C
http://vaio-online.sony.com/prod_inf...p_c/index.html
main differences between SZ18GP/C and SZ160 is:
not XBRITE screen, but CLEAR BRIGHT? [but the screen still looks fantastic @ the store for display]
Default ram is 512mb, while it's 1GB i think for sz160
Hard drive is 80gb, while it's 100gb for sz160
i went there yesterday [the sony store in hong kong] and the keyboard looks the same... [i haven't seen the sz160 in person ever] but the keyboard seems ok [no asian characters on it if you were wondering]
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Thank you for your fast answer!
yep I saw that the name was different in Honk Kong, but the sell a SZ18GP/C with 1,5 gigs of ram. Which is all I need..
Could you tell me what is the difference between the xbrite and the clear bright?? isn't it that its just a different name for the same screen?
Does the SZ18GP/C have the LED screen? you know that new things that sony made which consume less power?
If the sony store is not too far from you house, could I ask you to give me the price of the SZ18gp/C with 1,5 gigs of ram? (or 1 gig or ram in a single piece : 1*1024 and not 2*512...)
with the T2400 processor (or T2500)
and all the stuffs taht the sz160 has..
(ps: 80 gigs for the HD is not a problem at all...)
That is a very good news that there is no asian character on the keyboard!
but now I'm a bit confused with the screens? :S
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about the screen thing... i have no idea, but it looks fantastic anyway...
and yea the SZ18GP/C uses the white LED backlight
with default settings: the price of the laptop is HKD 16980 [2,188.46 USD]
for a 1.5gig ram (adding an extra 1gb ram stick) [if you buy from sony and they put it together for you]
you have to add an extra of HKD 1800 / 231.997 USD
(at least according to the sony style guy i asked yesterday)
for a 1gig ram (adding an extra of 512 ram stick)
you have to add an extra of HKD 800 / 103.110 USD
also, you need to add 490 HKD / 63.1503 USD for a 1 year international warranty [which you cannot extend]
and the original package includes a 1 year local (hong kong) warrnaty
[which you can extend, but no point... since you don't live here]
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ok thanks for those explenation, then it is no so good for me to buy it in HK... Because I absolutely want a 3 years international warranty.. Then I'll have to see what is the best price in Belgium... and at the moment for the sony vaio sz1xp/c, which is the equivalent of the sz160, its arround 2500 euros on sonystyle... it means 3011 dollars....
anyway thank you for your comment!
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no problem ^__^ glad i cleared things up for you
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I ordered a SZ18 online as well in Hong Kong :) Bahbu, do you know if they are already instock or shipping? I am currently in Canada right now but will be going back to HK to pick up my laptop soon!!!
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I ordered mine as well. Thank god I did it quick, because right afterwards they were all sold out!
I got the 1.5GB SZ18GP/C. I've done a lot of comparisons so far and I'm pretty confident that thi sis indeed the premium version (the weight, the white LED and other details lead me to believe so).
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werckmeister, when did you order your SZ and did it arrive already?
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What is the difference between the Hong Kong SZ 160 and the North American version? I wouldn't mind getting a Asian keyboard, but what is an Asian keyboard? Does it have Chinese texts on it or something or make it easier to use pinyin? I'm learning Chinese right now and I definitely wouldn't mind getting something that would help me out. Thanks.