Battery replacement MacBook Pro 2017

You change the keyboard layout yourself to whatever you please, whenever you please, including mid-sentence.

you do this by selecting a different keyboard translation in:

Settings/preferences > Keyboard > Input source

Regarding Physical keyboards:

The glyphs on the key caps are for YOUR convenience, ONLY. The computer has no idea what they are. Keys in the same x and y position on all keyboards generate exactly the same key codes. You can write Turkish or Italian on the same keyboard.

Apple repair policies generally requires replacing like-for-like, so they may insist in installing the same keyboard-language they took out. This is generally to avoid having users sabotage their device to obtain an otherwise-unavailable feature-change, such as a different keyboard language.

Is this Apple or an Apple Authorized Service Provider? Unless things are different in that region, Apple is not replacing just the Battery since it is glued in without the removal adhesive strips found on the 2018+ MBAirs and iPhone batteries.

If this is the two USB-C port model (non-touchbar), then I would not spend any money on it at all since it has all the known issues of the Touchbar model plus a few extra little known issues.

If it is the Touchbar model, then you do not want to have just the Battery replaced unless you first very carefully test every one of the keys looking for double-presses and non-responses caused by the design & manufacturing defects of the Butterfly keyboards. It is very difficult to test these keys to be 100% certain they are all still working fine.

In fact you must be extremely careful with any repairs of a "Vintage" Mac since Apple may not be able to honor the 90 day part warranty since repairs are only possible now as long as the necessary parts are still available. I understand that Apple should refund you the repair cost if they are unable to honor the 90 day part warranty (Hard to say if anyone can get Apple to do that even if it is policy). However, if Apple only replaces just the battery without the Top Case/Keyboard Assembly, then that part warranty will only apply to the Battery.

OWC and iFixIt sell third party replacement batteries, but recommend to have it installed by a professional since it is a difficult task (I agree). On the Touchbar model the Logic Board must be partially lifted which involves removing most of the screws & many of the fragile & easily damaged cables/connectors along with the Trackpad (hard to align again). If it is the non-Touchbar model, then forget it.....that battery is even harder to remove. However, you again want to make sure the Keyboard has no questionable keys.

Keyboards are regional items so you may be unable to have the laptop repaired in a region which does not support a particular keyboard layout. Unfortunately Apple has glued the battery to the underside of the Palmrest & Trackpad which Apple considers part of the larger Top Case/Keyboard Assembly. If you want to have the Battery replaced, then a third party Battery installed by a tech familiar with Macs but unaffiliated with Apple will be necessary. If you decide to go with a third party battery, then your best options are from the two vendors I noted in my earlier post since the quality of third party Lithium Batteries is extremely poor.....even when purchased from a respected vendor.

I really do not recommend spending money on repairs to any 2016-2020 Intel Macs for multiple reasons since that money would be better spent going towards a new laptop in my opinion and apparently with some others as well. The 2017 MBPro has some known design & manufacturing defects plus macOS Ventura is the last supported version of macOS which also starts to introduce potential issues with software support especially for any apps which require online access which will stop working once the online systems change over time.

results are COMPLETELY predictable, but they follow the keyboard translation you have chosen, NOT the glyphs on the keys.

The computer can not read the key caps. The key-codes that are generated are identical for keys in the same physical row and column position, regardless of the name of the keyboard. EVERY keyboard uses a translation, based on specified Input source.

I have tried to explain how the keyboard-encoding process works, so that you can choose the most affordable option that you can live with.

This is really a repair policy question for Apple and not for your fellow end users here. In spite of the confusing forum name, Apple will neither see nor respond to questions posted in these user-to-user forums

If you have visited a Genius Bar in an Apple retail store, their answers take precedent over any we can offer here.

those are not the keyboards you were talking about.

the main physical difference between US and UK is in the two-story return key used on all the Euro- and international keyboards. The internal key codes generated by the vast majority of the keys are identical. The real differentiation is done in keyboard translations.

twenty six letters and ten numerals are the same.

ok, tillda and apostrophe keys are added, in addition to what I said about the return key changing shape.

FWIW, I would not spend any money on a 7 year old computer.

rndm2 wrote:

They quoted only 280 euro so we decided it is a good price for new battery and top case.

That is about $310 US. Way too much IMHO to spend on a 7 year old computer.