Apple Site Pictures of Keyboard vs. Actual Keyboard

[rmc4139]

The Apple website shows a standard, wide return key, while the actual model has a long, elbowed key.
What gives?

 

[zombie1210]

My new alum MB doesn't have an elbowed return key.

 

[rmc4139]

A glassbook review on youtube showed one and so did pictures someone posted on this forum.

I find this very perplexing. xD

 

[ref26]

Maybe those keyboards are from another country with a different layout?

 

[iToaster]

There aren't any aluminum MacBooks with this "L-shaped" return key of which you speak. Your eyes are probably playing tricks on you. Can you show us this video of which you speak?

 

[rmc4139]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MVHWb1g654

This video is from the UK, or at least has a British narrator.
But I don't see why there would be a difference seeing as we use the same alphabet.

 

[rmc4139]

I also just checked the Apple UK site, and it shows the macbook with the normal wide enter key.

 

[zombie1210]

Thats odd. Definitely different.

 

[iToaster]

Hmm... I dunno, I guess it's just a keyboard layout for a different country after all.

 

[theviceofreason]

UK keyboard layout

I also just checked the Apple UK site, and it shows the macbook with the normal wide enter key.

The pictures on the Apple UK site must be of US models. Keyboards on British Macs have the inverted-L enter key, with the \ beside the ' key rather than beside the ] key.

They also have a shortened left shift key with the ` (grave) key beside it and a key with § (the "section" sign) and ± on it up next to the number 1 where I think the US model has the `. And they have a £ (pound sterling) sign instead of a number sign for shift-3.

This difference would be the one downside to picking up a shiny new Macbook next time I'm in the US...

 

[Gene Parmesan]

Some European countries such as Sweden have the enter key in that format in order to make room for extra character keys. The MacBook depicted on most, if not all online, Apple Store localizations is the standard U.S. keyboard layout.

 

[izym]

As other have stated its probably just the US keyboard Apple is showing. I can say for sure that the danish Apple site shows a US keyboard.