I’m currently working from Versant’s US office for one month. To save some time I brought a notebook over from Germany. Apparently a Dell notebook isn’t up to my typing, because the return key popped off and now the keyboard needs replacement. Unfortunately Dell _international_ support isn’t able to replace German keyboards (to be fair they can, it just takes them 6-8 weeks) and the German Dell support cannot ship replacement parts outside Europe. Even with a Business support agreement. So my only option is to replace the keyboard with an English one. But then typing on an English one with a German key mapping pretty much sucks. US keyboards miss several (important) keys. That’s why I’m currently switching to US key mapping. Lets see how long it takes me to be productive again with 10 finger.
Luckily my personal notebook is a Thinkpad. In more than four years it has never needed repair. And I’m a heavy user. Guess which brand I’ll buy next time when I get a new one? ;-)