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- Mac mini Server 4,1 (2.66GHz Core2Duo CPU, 16GB RAM, 120GB SSD, 500GB HD), iPhone SE 2nd gen (128GB)
I've been seeing many Mac Minis going surprisingly cheap on eBay recently, and have been seriously considering investing in one.
However, I did have one question which I've not been able to find a clear answer to; I know that one of the selling points of the Mini is that it can be used with a switcher's pre-existing PC set-up, simply replacing the PC itself, and connecting to the same keyboard/mouse/monitor/etc, but I've never seen it made clear if OS X has keymaps for all the regional variations of PC keyboard out there, or if it only has keymaps for Mac keyboards & one simply has to remember the different layout (either that or re-mark the keys on the keyboard!)...
Obviously, for US users this would not be significant, as US PC & Mac keyboards are almost identical in layout; but I would be using a British PC keyboard, which is quite different (it's not just the inclusion of a key for the £ symbol, a lot of the punctuation marks are in completely different places, and there are quite a few substitutions; so even the British Mac layout would not match very well).
So, my actual question - in case ^that^ was all a bit TL/DR - is:
Would any Mini I bought be able to accommodate my British PC keyboard's layout; or would I need to invest in some form of Mac keyboard to get it matching-up?
However, I did have one question which I've not been able to find a clear answer to; I know that one of the selling points of the Mini is that it can be used with a switcher's pre-existing PC set-up, simply replacing the PC itself, and connecting to the same keyboard/mouse/monitor/etc, but I've never seen it made clear if OS X has keymaps for all the regional variations of PC keyboard out there, or if it only has keymaps for Mac keyboards & one simply has to remember the different layout (either that or re-mark the keys on the keyboard!)...
Obviously, for US users this would not be significant, as US PC & Mac keyboards are almost identical in layout; but I would be using a British PC keyboard, which is quite different (it's not just the inclusion of a key for the £ symbol, a lot of the punctuation marks are in completely different places, and there are quite a few substitutions; so even the British Mac layout would not match very well).
So, my actual question - in case ^that^ was all a bit TL/DR - is:
Would any Mini I bought be able to accommodate my British PC keyboard's layout; or would I need to invest in some form of Mac keyboard to get it matching-up?