Buying a Macbook Pro in Germany

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Buying a Macbook Pro in Germany

Hey guys,

I am a windows user looking to purchase his first ever Mac product. I have a few questions about the language settings

of the Macbook Pro. I would appreciate if anyone could shed some light on my them.
I currently live in Germany and I been searching for places to buy the Macbook pro with and English Keyboard and so far

havent found any luck. I would also like the Mac OS to be in English.

I have read in many places that the language settings can easily be changed to any language of my choice. Same goes for they keyboard input language.

My question are: are there any disadvantages to purchasing a macbook with Germany Keyboard ( I work most of the time in english but I do also type in German every once in a while)

Can the language on the pre-installed and future installed apps also be changed to English?

Thanks

Posted on Jul 11, 2014 12:54 PM

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Tom Gewecke

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Jul 11, 2014 2:38 PM in response to macn00bx

macn00bx wrote:

I been searching for places to buy the Macbook pro with and English Keyboard and so far

havent found any luck.

The first place you should look is the online Apple store, which certainly has them (check the menu for Tastatur):

http://store.apple.com/de/buy-mac/macbook-pro?product=MD101D/A&step=config

A German keyboard is QWERTZ instead of QWERTY. If you are a touch typist, you might not find it very convenient.

Apple apps adopt whatever language the OS is in. Other apps may not. MS Office I think you need separate versions for each language.

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macn00bx Author

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Jul 12, 2014 2:04 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

Thanks for the link. I did check it out, however the price is about 100 euroes more on the apple store.

If i change the keyboard input language to English, will that have any effect on the QWERTZ - QWERTY difference?

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Tom Gewecke

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Jul 12, 2014 2:53 AM in response to macn00bx

macn00bx wrote:

If i change the keyboard input language to English, will that have any effect on the QWERTZ - QWERTY difference?

Yes, if you set the input source to US, the keyboard will behave as if it were QWERTY.

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léonie

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Jul 12, 2014 11:51 AM in response to macn00bx

In addition to the "QWERTZ instead of QWERTY" is the English keyboard more convenient for writing program code. On a German keyboard you need the alt&opt key to be able to type brackets or curly braces, and even the @ key requires an "alt/opt" key. But it is much easier to type the "Umlaute". So, if you do a lot of programming, you will probably prefer an English keyboard.

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OGELTHORPE

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Jul 12, 2014 12:22 PM in response to léonie

Leonie, Greetings; Thank you.

Ciao.

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