Macbook Pro keyboard layout

[Moog72]

I fancied a change from PCs and bought a Macbook Pro for my day to day computing needs and have to say I'm loving it and the transition was far easier than expected however there is one niggle that I can't find a solution to and I'm hoping someone can help.

It's a genuine British sourced Macbook and the keyboard language it set to British but the "at" (@) sign is on the "2" key as opposed to being on the " ' " key where it is on virtually all keyboards in this country. Quote marks are normally on the 2 key.

To be fair this is how it's represented on the keys themselves so it's not a fault but is there any way to switch them over so it acts like a "normal" keyboard or is this one of those infamous Mac quirks you just have to live with?

Cheers

[Moog72]

Thanks for the replies - I've had the machine 2 months now though and it still hasn't "clicked" so to speak, but if it's a quirk then so be it, I'll work at it

Cheers

[Moog72]

The Restorer said:

Have Win7, 8 and a Macbook at home. Despite it's foibles me and more telling the Mrs use the Macbook as the primary device, I think just because of that screen.

The one thing I miss when I'm using a Windows laptop is the 2 finger scroll. I do it several times a day and then have to "adjust" my behaviour for Windows.

I know what you mean about the screen - I was going to plug the Macbook into my 24" monitor except when I did, it looked awful in comparison, all washed out and "low res" - I now use the laptop screen exclusively

[Moog72]

kevbernard said:

Just set the keyboard to a British layout. Works in both MAC/OS and Windows under bootcamp.
Confuses people who need to look at the keyboard. But if your fingers know where the keys are then you'll be fine.
Also, if you use a proper keyboard plugged into the USB port it'll operate normally as well.

Doesn't work though for the built in MB keyboard - mine's set to British (as stated originally) and the @ " symbols are in the "wrong" place

[Moog72]

Bingo, that's exactly what I was looking for, thanks! Now is that persistent setting i.e. when I log in will it know I've chosen that "PC" input source or do I have to click it each time? Any way to make it the default input source?

[Moog72]

To answer my own question, I could just remove the "British" input source and only have the "PC" version available