English Language support with Hardwareversand.de products.

Mr Manfred

Hej all. I notice that a great many Boards users frequently post about Hardwareversand and looking at the prices and with fixed shipping, it's no wonder. My question is whether goods sold(laptops, phones etc) come preloaded with English operating systems. It's clearly a German site. I am just curious if saving 75 euros is going to land me with a foreign-language computer. So if you've bought a prebuilt machine from HWVS, was everything in English? Is there a language option after you purchase? Is it much easier to change Windows default language than I've realised? All help is appreciated.

yoyo

Mr Manfred wrote: »

Hej all. I notice that a great many Boards users frequently post about Hardwareversand and looking at the prices and with fixed shipping, it's no wonder. My question is whether goods sold(laptops, phones etc) come preloaded with English operating systems. It's clearly a German site. I am just curious if saving 75 euros is going to land me with a foreign-language computer. So if you've bought a prebuilt machine from HWVS, was everything in English? Is there a language option after you purchase? Is it much easier to change Windows default language than I've realised? All help is appreciated.

Laptops will more than likely come with a German keyboard. Your probably best off using it only for building computers, you can get software from another retailer then like elara or dabs. The windows key you get if purchasing the german os may even activate Windows 7 you can download here, it may even be multi-language, I don't think it would be though

Nick

deconduo

yoyo wrote: »

Laptops will more than likely come with a German keyboard. Your probably best off using it only for building computers, you can get software from another retailer then like elara or dabs. The windows key you get if purchasing the german os may even activate Windows 7 you can download here, it may even be multi-language, I don't think it would be though

Nick

Basically it goes like this:
-All hardware is mulitlingual, apart from keyboards which are German layout.

-PSUs have an EU plug, so you need to get an adapter or an Irish/UK or power cord. Most people have loads lying around the place anyway.

-Software will be in German. If you are buying a prebuilt desktop, most don't come with windows anyway so you'll have to get it separately. They sell both English and German versions of windows, but the German version is cheaper. Even if you get the German version you can download the English version of Windows 7 Home Premium, and just use the licence key as its valid for all languages.

Mr Manfred

Thanks guys. That's great to know. The BIOS and CMOS settings would all be in German too right if it's a German motherboard? In my own current computer I can't see any options to change the language of this and if there were how would I understand how to do it from German :P .

yoyo

Mr Manfred wrote: »

Thanks guys. That's great to know. The BIOS and CMOS settings would all be in German too right if it's a German motherboard? In my own current computer I can't see any options to change the language of this and if there were how would I understand how to do it from German :P .

I think for most mainboards you can choose a bios language in the bios, can't be bothered rebooting my machine to check but whenever you buy a motherboard the booklet it ships with is usually multi lingual in my expierience so I'm sure the bios language settings are there somewhere in the bios.

Nick

deconduo

Mr Manfred wrote: »

Thanks guys. That's great to know. The BIOS and CMOS settings would all be in German too right if it's a German motherboard? In my own current computer I can't see any options to change the language of this and if there were how would I understand how to do it from German :P .

If your current computer is a Dell/HP/whatever I would understand, as they tend to lock out most BIOS options. However on a custom build that wouldn't be the case, and as far as I remember every single motherboard I've used has had language options.

Mr Manfred

Yup - it's a Dell. Many more thanks yoyo and deconduo.