Japanese OS problems?

[Milk Frosting]

I'm looking at buying a Japanese laptop off of a japanese website and it of course runs on a japanese OS. I was wondering if the conversion from a japanese OS to an English one would be too complicated or expensive and if it is even possible. Or if I could simply use it with the japanese OS and get used to the slightly differnt keyboard and if anything else would really matter. Your help is very much appreciated!
If I just use the japanese OS and I go into a word document will the options at the top, such as new page, or open document, copy, paste etc. be in japanese? Is so is there a way I can just manually change it? Thanks again. heart

[SonataMG]

Wrong forum. ^^ Try Computers and technology forum. =]

[Milk Frosting]

oops sorry, thanks

[Milk Frosting]

bump

[Bento the spazcat]

What OS?

[Allariele]

You wouldn't have to worry at all if you install an English OS separately, as another partition; or even overwrite the Japanese version. So ideally you install the english OS alongside the japanese one, then in the BIOS, set the default operating system to the English one

[rape rainbows]

go to ubuntu.com download ubuntu9.10 .iso to your computer and then burn the.iso file to a cd rom and then restart your computer with the disk inside from there you can preview the os without downloading it if you like it just press the install icon on your desktop

[The Last Rydian]

captain of obvious

go to ubuntu.com download ubuntu9.10 .iso to your computer and then burn the.iso file to a cd rom and then restart your computer with the disk inside from there you can preview the os without downloading it if you like it just press the install icon on your desktop

Read the rules, we have a "Correct, not convert" one.

[nightfly19]

The Last Rydian

captain of obvious

go to ubuntu.com download ubuntu9.10 .iso to your computer and then burn the.iso file to a cd rom and then restart your computer with the disk inside from there you can preview the os without downloading it if you like it just press the install icon on your desktop

Read the rules, we have a "Correct, not convert" one.

To be fair the OPs specific question involved asking if converting the Japanese language OS to an English one would be expensive. This answer meets those requirements in full.

[The Last Rydian]

If he had pointed out that it was a different OS and made sure she knew about that and the differences it would have been acceptable, but right now he's telling her to overwrite one OS with another without any sort of details or information beforehand.

That's just ******** dangerous.

[K0NNICHIWA]

why buy a japanese laptop? : can you read japanese?

[LilPinkCandy]

milk frosting

I'm looking at buying a Japanese laptop off of a japanese website and it of course runs on a japanese OS. I was wondering if the conversion from a japanese OS to an English one would be too complicated or expensive and if it is even possible. Or if I could simply use it with the japanese OS and get used to the slightly differnt keyboard and if anything else would really matter. Your help is very much appreciated!
If I just use the japanese OS and I go into a word document will the options at the top, such as new page, or open document, copy, paste etc. be in japanese? Is so is there a way I can just manually change it? Thanks again. heart

is the keyboard in Japanese? That would be really hard to type on in English even if you converted the OS. My questions are:
Why are you looking to buy a Japanese one?
Is is cheaper or is it just cool?
What OS is the Japanese one?