US MBA without a box

Amp34 · 12 Dec 2011 at 23:09

First off this isn't in any way a for sale thread!

What sort of price hit would I be looking at if I decided to sell a US/NA MBA without a box a few months after I bought it?

Also, more minor question, is there a major difference between the North American keyboard and UK keyboard?

PardonTheWait · 12 Dec 2011 at 23:18

Amp34 said:
First off this isn't in any way a for sale thread!

What sort of price hit would I be looking at if I decided to sell a US/NA MBA without a box a few months after I bought it?

Also, more minor question, is there a major difference between the North American keyboard and UK keyboard?

Differences off the top of my head:

backspace key says delete on it
half height enter button
no £ sign
# key
No € sign printed on keyboard

I think the alt key says option on it as well.

Edit: just got curious and looked, I remember now - a few of the other keys have their function printed on it words, not symbols. Tab, Shift, and Caps Lock all actually say those things on them. Enter key says Enter and Return on it instead of the symbol too. The actual layout itself is quite similar apart from what I mentioned above (I think that's it anyway)

Skyboat · 13 Dec 2011 at 00:10

UK keyboard: Link

US keyboard: Link

pingwing · 13 Dec 2011 at 00:21

Well the pictures explain it nicely! (and explains why the macs on the apple website always confuse me a little as its always US keyboard for the adverts)

Price I doubt it makes much difference

Amp34 · 15 Dec 2011 at 21:57

Thanks for that. My main worry was price, I'm tempted to get one as it's more reasonably priced than the other options I'm looking at, however I'm not a fan of OSX or the style so may end up selling it in the near future hence the cost question. I take it then boxed products don't really matter. Will there be an issue with the power adaptor as well? Obviously there is a US plug but are they easily interchangeable without having to change the brick as well?