2020 Macbook Air Keyboard

[jparker402]

Just watching a YouTube Video of gentleman critiquing 2020 Macbook Air, and do not understand the keyboard I am seeing in his video. Am going to try to add a link to it here:

. I am specifically speaking of the enter/return key which is shown at about 6:40. This doesn't look like the keyboard shown in Apple Store for the 2020 Macbook Air. Doesn't even look like the IBM enter/return key (at least to me). What is it?

 

[JPack]

It's the keyboard layout used in the EU.

 

[Seanm87]

Yep mine looks the same (UK)

What does the US one look like?

 

[deeddawg]

Yep mine looks the same (UK)

What does the US one look like?

The | \ key sits above the return key.

From https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201794

 

[Seanm87]

The | \ key sits above the return key.

From https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201794

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Oh wow wonder why they’re different?

Our return keys look like the one in the video. On all our laptops and computers.

I didn’t even know they were different in other countries.

 

[jparker402]

Interesting! Spent three years at a NATO headquarters staff in Napoli (home of Olivetti) and don't remember a keyboard like that. But that was in the early 70s and we only had typewriters, no computers.

 

[Seanm87]

I think I prefer the way it is on mine.

Do you guys never hit the shift key accidentally? that would drive me mad.

 

[deeddawg]

I think I prefer the way it is on mine.

Do you guys never hit the shift key accidentally? that would drive me mad.

We tend to prefer what we're used to using.

As for inadvertently hitting the shift key, that's never been an issue I've noticed.

 

[rdubmu]

I have never accidentally hit the shift key lol,

I also never use the shift key on the right hand side either.

 

[Admiral]

If you're hot for this keyboard, the on-line Apple store will allow you to specify a UK English-language ("British") keyboard, as well as keyboards for all the major European languages, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, and both major streams of Chinese (pinyin and zhuyin).