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Gizmodo : Letsnote Lineup To Include All Colors of the Rainbow:

Panasonic has announced their newest “Letsnote R3” notebook will be available in a total of 14 colors, online. Featuring your favorite shades such as “Glassy Black,” “Peach Blossom,” and even world-renowned “Cocoa Brown,” surely something here will suit your tastes.

On the inside, you’ll unfortunately find your standard notebook PC. But wait a minute - Panasonic is offering a service called “Romaji Neat Keyboard” which will omit Japanese characters from your keyboard (as these are only available in Japan). That’s right; you pay $30 and to have something removed from your computer. This makes perfect sense to me, because Japanese people rarely (never?) type Japanese using the Japanese character set as depicted on their keyboard. Most Japanese people simply type, for stereotypical example, “sushi” on their keyboard, and convert it to Japanese using software.