I know Windows has evolved radically since I last used it, back in the XP era, and has even changed since the last time I used it in anger, shortly after the launch of Windows 8.1. Microsoft Surface Book Photograph: Samuel Gibbs/The Guardian For the past month, I’ve been using the Surface Book, the top-of-the-line laptop sold by, of all people, Microsoft. The cheapest Mac that would be sufficient for my needs, a 13in MacBook Pro with 512GB of storage space and 16GB of ram, comes in at well over £2,000, yet is barely more powerful than the machine it’s replacing, a 15in retina MacBook Pro from four years ago that cost just over £1,500 at the time. I’m on my sixth iPhone, second iPad and third Mac I have an Apple TV at home, Apple branded keyboard on my desktop, and even an Apple AA battery charger, from the days when they made them.īut the twin punches of a Brexit-led depreciation of the pound, and Apple releasing a new range of MacBook Pros with the least bang-for-your-buck in recent memory, made me think twice. Ten years on, I’m a fairly default Apple user. Plus, World of Warcraft was cross-platform, which was all the gaming I needed for a good while. And while I missed being able to play the full library of PC games I’d built up over the years, it was an exciting time to be moving to the Mac OS world. And the good thing is, you don't have to keep a list of shortcut codes near you.The laptop wasn’t cheap, but it made shuttling between my separated parents’ houses much easier. When you press Shift and Option buttons, the on-screen keyboard will show up. Whenever you want to type a special character, click the flag and select " Show Keyboard Viewer". Now, depending on the language you select, a flag will be in the menu bar.
Choose Show Keyboard Viewer from the Input menu on the right side of the menu bar (the one that looks like a flag).Select the " on" check-box next to language whose keyboard layout you want to use. Choose Apple menu ➢ System Preferences and click International.Ĭlick Input Menu, then select the check-box next to Keyboard Viewer.This layout is also different for different languages you select, so Keyboard Viewer can also help you see which key stands for what characters if you switch to a different language. It displays an on-screen keyboard layout which changes when you press modifier keys like and.
You can use standard built-in applet called " Keyboard viewer" to make things easier.
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