Q: Different keyboard on my MBP 17"
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Mar 5, 2012 8:18 AMby OGELTHORPE,Look at this link:
http://www.apple.com/keyboard/
I do not know if there is a specific Brazilian one. I would check with the Brazilian Apple people.
Ciao.
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Mar 5, 2012 8:34 AMby Tom Gewecke,There is no need to use a different keyboard to type Portuguese, if that is your question. All the special characters can be made via option/alt deadkeys from the standard US keyboard (if that is what you have). See
http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/diacritics.html
They do use a unique kind of hardware keyboard in Brazil (ABNT), which you could buy and connect via usb or bluetooth. You would also need to download and install a special keyboard layout to go with it. This article has info:
http://m10lmac.blogspot.com/2007/02/fixing-brazilian-keyboard-layout.html
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Mar 5, 2012 8:39 AMby Courcoul,In case of Brazil, there is no "Brazilian keyboard". Closest match will be a Portuguese keyboard. Here's a list of all the keyboard localizations made by Apple:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2841
So either get an external keyboard as suggested by OGELTHORPE or consider having the individual keycaps replaced at a cost; compare your current keyboard to the one you want and see how many keys differ. BTW, does your Mac have a regular 78 key layout or an ISO 79 key layout? Difference is easy to spot by looking at the right: the regular keyboard has a horizontal Enter/Return key, whereas the ISO keyboard has it vertical.
