Originally Posted by lamewing
Soozieg.
I was told the same thing buy the salespeople at Akihabara. That is not true. The A808 works fine with English Windows and Sonicstage 4.3 and with a simple registry tweak you can add kanji and kana support.
I know the 808 works fine with SS and English Windows as I have it. But the model you're after is a Japan-only release (SS/Atrac only released with Japanese models now) so make sure that particular model can definitely use English Windows before you buy it.