US ordered MacBook Pro for use in UK?

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InfoTime

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I've been tasked with ordering and setting up a MacBook Pro for a user in the UK. I'm in the US.

Is there any difference between MacBook Pros ordered from apple.com and apple.co.uk? From what I can tell the power requirements seem to be OK. I might be wrong. My guess is that I'd need a UK plug adapter. Ideally we'd like to have a "native" UK power supply if such a thing exists.

Thoughts?
 
The US keyboard is far superior (bigger return/enter and shift keys). I hate the tiny enter button on my UK MBP. As for power adapter, you just need to buy a UK-type head. Simply slide off the US 2-prong adapter and put in the UK thing and it'll work.
 
chilipie said:
They use different keyboard layouts.
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I checked Apple's sites to see if I could see the differences. Looks like they show the same image on both www.apple.com and www.apple.com/uk for the MacBook Pro keyboard layouts:

From US site:
http://images.apple.com/macbookpro/images/overview-gallery2-20081014.jpg
overview-gallery2-20081014.jpg


From UK site:
http://images.apple.com/euro/macbookpro/images/overview-gallery2-20081014.jpg
overview-gallery2-20081014.jpg


Anyone have a photo of the UK keyboard?
 
Thanks for that pic FuzzMonkey.

Here's my comparison:

Only physical difference is the backslash / Enter keys. On the UK keyboard the backslash key is moved down and the Enter key is made taller rather than wide.

The tilde key (before the one) has a +/- and a symbol I don't recognize. The 2 has the @ sign and an additional Euro (?) symbol. The 3 has the British pound symbol instead of the US pound symbol #.

the only other difference I can see is that symbols instead of words are used for things like Shift, Enter, Tab, etc.

Does that about cover it?
 
InfoTime said:
the only other difference I can see is that symbols instead of words are used for things like Shift, Enter, Tab, etc.

Does that about cover it?
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Nope. The shift keys are different. They are wider on the U.S. layout. I'd go for a US layout over a UK one anytime given the opportunity.
 
skyrider007 said:
Nope. The shift keys are different. They are wider on the U.S. layout. I'd go for a US layout over a UK one anytime given the opportunity.
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Just the left shift key is different, then right? It has the tilde next to it which makes it shorter.
 
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