Juliferro

Q: Is the macbook's keyboard in singapur the same as in the usa?

I will be 2 days in singapur and i want to buy a macbook pro but i newd to know if the keyboard is in english or chinese!

thanks!

Posted on Dec 13, 2015 5:07 PM

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Q: Is the macbook's keyboard in singapur the same as in the usa?

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  • by TanMan,

    TanMan TanMan Dec 13, 2015 5:11 PM in response to Juliferro
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    Dec 13, 2015 5:11 PM in response to Juliferro

    There is no such thing as a Chinese hardware keyboard for a MacBook Pro!!!

  • by Tom Gewecke,

    Tom Gewecke Tom Gewecke Dec 13, 2015 6:03 PM in response to TanMan
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    Dec 13, 2015 6:03 PM in response to TanMan

    TanMan wrote:

     

    There is no such thing as a Chinese hardware keyboard for a MacBook Pro!!!

    NOt true.  There is such a thing, but I think they are only sold in Taiwan.

  • by steve359,

    steve359 steve359 Dec 13, 2015 6:13 PM in response to Juliferro
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    Dec 13, 2015 6:13 PM in response to Juliferro

    I would call Apple and ask what "off the shelf" units have in Singapore.  There keyboard layouts are driven by the language, despite "common character set".

  • by Juliferro,

    Juliferro Juliferro Dec 13, 2015 6:14 PM in response to Tom Gewecke
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    Dec 13, 2015 6:14 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

    OK! But i'm asking because i need the keyboard in english and i'm not want to buy a mac in chinese! So are you sure that in Singapore the keyboard is in english? Thak you!!!

  • by Tom Gewecke,

    Tom Gewecke Tom Gewecke Dec 13, 2015 6:21 PM in response to Juliferro
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    Dec 13, 2015 6:21 PM in response to Juliferro

    JUst go to the website for the singapore apple store and look for yourself.

     

    the only keyboard available is International English.

  • by TanMan,

    TanMan TanMan Dec 15, 2015 12:21 AM in response to Tom Gewecke
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    Dec 15, 2015 12:21 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

    Wrong.  There's no pure Chinese hardware keyboards.  Not on a laptop--there's not enough space.  Separate wireless keyboards, yes.  But even those will also include the standard Qwerty characters on it aside from the Zhuyin Fuhao radicals.

  • by Tom Gewecke,

    Tom Gewecke Tom Gewecke Dec 15, 2015 5:14 AM in response to TanMan
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    Dec 15, 2015 5:14 AM in response to TanMan

    TanMan wrote:

     

    Wrong.  There's no pure Chinese hardware keyboards.  Not on a laptop--there's not enough space.  Separate wireless keyboards, yes.  But even those will also include the standard Qwerty characters on it aside from the Zhuyin Fuhao radicals.

     

    All Apple keyboards that have non-Latin scripts on them (Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Greek) must have standard qwerty on them as well, otherwise you could not type any email or webpage addresses.

     

    Size is irrelevant.   There are various input methods for Chinese that use Chinese characters which fit on any keyboard.

     

    I have never seen one myself, but Apple's page showing the keyboards it makes has a picture for the one supposedly used for notebook machines in Taiwan:

     

    How to identify keyboard localizations - Apple Support

     

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