Buy Laptop with US Keyboard & Windows (English) in Brazil?

10/18/23    @rraypo
yea on air canada its listed as a *potential weapon* apparently too many office workers went nutso with a keyboard on too many planes hahaha
   

    -@Mikeflanagan

Oh, Canada!  😨

Yet you can bring in lead acid batteries as a carryon. Priorities in actiok

    always thought it was ARPANET and DoD ( department of defense ) around 1960 that developed world wide web,  and that it was some weird german dude who made text messaging lol
   

    -@Mikeflanagan

Sorry Mike, but it was Sir Tim Berners-Lee who invented the World Wide Web in 1989, and while some German dude did mess with the concept of text messaging years earlier, in 1992 British programmer Neil Papworth sent the first ever text message from a computer to his colleague Richard Jarvis. Did you also know that the first powered flight was actually in Britain, not the US or France, and that WW2 started in 1939 not 1941? That the US was actually discovered in the 13th century by a Welsh sea captain, but he did not like the gun control laws and quickly left?

    Yet you can bring in lead acid batteries as a carryon. Priorities in actiok
   

    -@Mikeflanagan

WHAT!!!!!

        always thought it was ARPANET and DoD ( department of defense ) around 1960 that developed world wide web,  and that it was some weird german dude who made text messaging lol        -@Mikeflanagan

Sorry Mike, but it was Sir Tim Berners-Lee who invented the World Wide Web in 1989,
    -@Peter Itamaraca

Um, no on that one, at least as far as inventing the Internet is concerned.  Berners-Lee DID invent the World Wide Web, but that operated, and operates,  on an already existing network of networks that owed its origin to ARPANET (or DARPANET, if you prefer), that developed the first protocols and the first actual communications backbone in the 1970s for interconnected computers that we'd recognize as the Internet. 

I vividly remember when Netscape first made the WWW generally available to amateurs like me in 1994.  The Web was fantastic, but it was still so small and limited that for a while the computer magazines were publishing seemingly complete "Maps of the World Wide Web" so that we could see and find all of the resources available.  The first map that I remember seeing took up only one two-page spread.  We were still using Gopher, Archie, Jughead, and Veronica for most of our searches, often through a Compuserve text interface in my case, and listservs for communications.  Within a year or two the Web grew bigger and faster than the publishers could keep up with, and all of those tools quickly became obsolete, at least for amateurs, replaced by Web-based apps.  But the Internet itself still exists under the Web, and as far as I know, can still be accessed and used directly, bypassing the Web, by those that know how and have reason to do it.

Um, no on that one, at least as far as inventing the Internet is concerned.  Berners-Lee DID invent the World Wide Web, but that operated, and operates,  on an already existing network of networks that owed its origin to ARPANET (or DARPANET, if you prefer), that developed the first protocols and the first actual communications backbone in the 1970s for interconnected computers that we'd recognize as the Internet. 
    -@abthree

Don't know how a laptop with keyboard turned into a techie conversation.  Have you tried a silicon keyboard protector?  They also have keys imprinted and you just need to lift off the protector to get your original keyboard.  I use those on all my laptops.  If you have a touchscreen laptop, you can display the keyboard viewer and then type on the screen.  Lots of choices here....

Re:  internet - I did have a bitnet address once and it was clear how ARP and RARP protocols were devised from that address.

And a Xerox Alto Computer (68K based) with a full monochrome graphics display and HDD - and yes the mouse cord originally came out in front rather than the back.

However, I do give credit to the Brits for the Acorn Computers as I had the Electron - which ended becoming ARM - which runs most of mobile compute today.

Oh, the glory days of knowing how to arrange the first 4 bytes to make the CPU boot.  I am not sure that the new engineers know what bootstrapping means any more as the microcode is built in the silicon.

Buying a laptop with a US keyboard and Windows in English here in Brazil isn't really a big deal. I've done it a couple of times myself, and it's been pretty straightforward.

Most stores offer options with both Brazilian and US keyboard layouts, so you can choose whichever one suits your preferences. Plus, setting up Windows in English is super easy during the initial setup process – just a few clicks, and you're good to go. Oh, and speaking of Windows, if you ever need legit keys at a good price, I recently stumbled upon [link under review]. They've got some solid deals that might save you some cash.

@abbytwoods What about Apple computers? Can you recommend any gray market resellers?

Thanks 

Alan

02/28/24    Most stores offer options with both Brazilian and US keyboard layouts, so you can choose whichever one suits your preferences.     

    -@abbytwoods

In what store in what city -- or online -- did you find a US keyboard for sale in Brazil?  This is information that a lot of people would like to have.