Think about regular office work, or children's homework. Think about schools. You need all glyphs printed on the keyboard and typed fast (no, you can't take a letter from the Spanish alphabet!). Thinking like a seasoned geek doesn't work very well understanding a country's market. The Latin America vs. Spanish layout is another issue altogether.
Yeah, but you could always buy relatively cheap norm converters, and cheap TVs support multinorm since a long time ago. That's not a problem.
The plug and line voltage issues are real annoyances, and are examples of the international market winning over a developing country's national standards.
The keyboard situation turned out for the best (I had an English keyboard on my XT). Regular users want Spanish keyboards here.
Maybe it's not that way in "high tech" places (MercadoLibre or Galería Jardin)
Mercado Libre is high tech? I don't see why. Anyway, It's the other way around on Mercado Libre (you can look that up easily). You can probably get both types in most computer stores.
What's hard (or impossible) to find is a cheap, new, US-layout keyboard. Only very expensive models (I had to get an Apple one), or gamer keyboards come in US layout.
Sure. You can write all English glyphs on a keyboard with Spanish layout, and Spanish has always been by far the country's primary language.
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Think about regular office work, or children's homework. Think about schools. You need all glyphs printed on the keyboard and typed fast (no, you can't take a letter from the Spanish alphabet!). Thinking like a seasoned geek doesn't work very well understanding a country's market. The Latin America vs. Spanish layout is another issue altogether.
Yeah, but you could always buy relatively cheap norm converters, and cheap TVs support multinorm since a long time ago. That's not a problem. The plug and line voltage issues are real annoyances, and are examples of the international market winning over a developing country's national standards. The keyboard situation turned out for the best (I had an English keyboard on my XT). Regular users want Spanish keyboards here.
Maybe it's not that way in "high tech" places (MercadoLibre or Galería Jardin)
Mercado Libre is high tech? I don't see why. Anyway, It's the other way around on Mercado Libre (you can look that up easily). You can probably get both types in most computer stores.
What's hard (or impossible) to find is a cheap, new, US-layout keyboard. Only very expensive models (I had to get an Apple one), or gamer keyboards come in US layout.
Sure. You can write all English glyphs on a keyboard with Spanish layout, and Spanish has always been by far the country's primary language.
Wrong. Not really.
It's easy to get a USB keyboard in Argentina. Probably easier than PS/2.