{"id":54,"date":"2007-06-08T02:12:20","date_gmt":"2007-06-08T00:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.blackdown.de\/2007\/06\/08\/apple-rant\/"},"modified":"2016-10-29T03:51:00","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T01:51:00","slug":"apple-rant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackdown.de\/articles\/apple-rant\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Rant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I want one of those new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macbookpro\/\">MacBook Pros<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I want one with a US keyboard!<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately Apple seems to be unable to provide US keyboards to European customers :&nbsp;(<\/p>\n<p>The German webstore offers an International-English keyboard but that is different from US style keyboards: narrow <code>Return<\/code> key, additional key between left <code>Shift<\/code> and <code>Z<\/code>.<\/p>\n<p>Several phone calls and emails didn&#8217;t help: No US keyboards for German users!<\/p>\n<p>I never had this problem with other notebook manufacturers like Dell, Toshiba, and IBM. It can&#8217;t be that hard to put a different keyboard on that thingie when assembling it.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>June 14th, 2007:<\/strong> Also read the follow-up to this post: <a href=\"\/2007\/06\/14\/apple-praise\/\">Apple Praise<\/a> :&nbsp;)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want one of those new MacBook Pros. I want one with a US keyboard! Unfortunately Apple seems to be unable to provide US keyboards to European customers :&nbsp;( The German webstore offers an International-English keyboard but that is different from US style keyboards: narrow Return key, additional key between left Shift and Z. 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