EU Laptop keyboard-layout hell

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I am extremely frustrated with Lenovo.
They removed the option to choose your keyboard layout when configuring any laptop, except on some old Thinkpads. And they disabled the option to ship to other EU countries from their shops.

I’m trying to get a Lenovo 14” Slim 7i Aura Edition (1920x1200 OLED / 32GB / 256V) with US/UK -layout. But every store refuses to either configure the layout or ship to my Luxembourg or Germany address.

I tried:

  • Lenovo DE store → Refuses to configure
  • Lenovo NL store → Refuses to ship anywhere outside NL
  • Lenovo UK store → Refuses to ship anywhere outside UK
  • Lenovo US store → Refuses to ship anywhere outside US
  • Amazon NL → “Item cannot be shipped to your selected delivery location(s)”
  • Amazon UK → “Item cannot be shipped to your selected delivery location(s)”
  • Amazon US → Limited options & huge fees (Example: “EUR 622.25 Shipping & Import Fees”)
  • YT Video description link → Sends me to bhphotovideo.com → Doesn’t state the keyboard layout. Email ignored.

If anyone from any EU country found a solution to this enforced keyboard layout problem hell, please let us know what solution or trick worked for you.

(I know that a lot of programmers in EU just go with Apple to solve this problem, but I don’t want another macbook.)

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https://geizhals.de/lenovo-yoga-slim-7-14ill10-83jx005ege-a3468276.html why not try from other retailers, this should show a bunch of retailers that sells about the same model with a better screen, try checking if any of these ship to ur location, have the desired keyboard layout

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That is extremley frustrating. We’ve had a couple of keyboards with the wrong layout and it sucked!!!

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