[heikkir]

im buyin a MacBook from the Apple EU store. When choosing the keyboard the store gives me an alternative to buy an international keyboard. my question is this: if i get the macbook with the international keyboard can i later convert the operating system to finnish instead of the international. i know this works on windows but i was just wonderin if it works the same way on the mac...

[Big Mac]

You can always convert the software layout.

[mfbernstein]

Yes, that will work. MacOS X includes all the supported localizations (including Finnish) by default, changing them is simply a matter of going to System Preferences -> International and selecting the appropriate language and key mappings.

[heikkir]

since im a newbie to mac i want to make sure i understood this. in finnish there are two letters that are not in the English language. Can i change the keyboard layout so that these two letters can be found on the international keyboard thus replacing something else?

[molala]

Yes, you can replace the layout with the standard Finnish keyboard. Just tried it... Finnish keyboard doesn't look as weird as I feared . If you enable and click the Keyboard Viewer (under the International menu that was previously pointed out), you would see what the layout is.