need to buy a mac computer

[dianagoodz]

Does anyone know where one can buy a new MacIntosh computer in Guanajuato?

[Heather]

I believe you can get them at Telmex, or at the Mac shop at Plaza Mayor in Leon, but are cheaper of course in the States if you get someone to bring one down.

[J Anoni]

If you want a high end model, with a USA keyboard, and an English operating system I would purchase it in the USA, or order it from the USA. I don't know much about Macintosh, but if it were me, and I needed a new computer, I would be making a trip to the border.

As usual, with anything technological in Mexico, what is available will usually be low-end and high priced, if available at all.

On the other hand, if a Macintosh computer's USA warranty is not honored in Mexico, or not transferable to Mexico, then in that case I would buy the computer in Mexico.

As far as Windows systems are concerned, Dell USA warranties are transferable to Mexico, if the 4 year extended warranty is purchased with the computer. (After my experiences with laptops, I would never have a warranty less than 4 years)

[laconstance]

Checking the warranty is a good idea.

The operating system of the Mac is the operating system and is not language specific. There are bazillions of languages and fonts built into the operating system, and there is no trouble to switch back and forth. I have a USA mac, but have switched over to a Spanish keyboard. This is in the operating system, and you don't have to buy a piece of hardware, i.e. a language specific keyboard. If anyone else uses my computer, it takes two clicks to switch the keyboard back to English.

[mr bill]

Janoni has a point re keyboards

This is what a Spanish/Mexican keyboard looks like

This is what a typical US QWERTY keyboard looks like

What laconstance refers to is the ability to switch virtual keyboards in Windows [and probably MAC] On my machines I have both English and Thai. When typing in Thai the font is loaded and the keys are assigned to match a physical Thai keyboard

Lower case

Upper case [shift lock]

[laconstance]

Yes, thanks Mr. Bill about the clarification about a "virtual" keyboard.

Actually, on my Mac laptop the virtual Spanish keyboard is very nearly the same as the actual Spanish keyboard you pictured. I think you'd have to go to a Mac store here in M?xico to see if the actual keyboard on the M?xican Mac computer is qwerty English or more-or-less-qwerty Spanish. Really, it didn't take long to get used to the virtual Spanish keyboard -- humans are pretty adaptable creatures -- so I don't suppose it would take long to get used to a virtual English keyboard.

As to a Thai keyboard, well, we'll just let that one go!

[meroberts]

Here is another option: http://tlt.its.psu.edu/suggestions/inter...anish.html