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hiya all, could do with some advice please.... My Toshiba satellite M40
needs a new / replacement keyboard, Model number NSK-T471D, there's plenty
on ebay, on the ribbon my one says T4001-UK in part of the model number.
the only one's I can find are labeled with T4001-US on the ribbon. now what
I need to know is would this be ok for my laptop ?

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Ivorh
Suffolk,
Hazard County
United Kingdom

On Thu, 14 May 2009 20:02:38 +0100, "Ivor" <> wrote:

>hiya all, could do with some advice please....

First advice: Ignore chucktard. He's going to tell you a laptop
keyboard is non user replaceable. As it sounds like you've realized,
it's quite easy to replace.

>My Toshiba satellite M40 needs a new / replacement keyboard, Model number NSK-T471D, there's plenty
>on ebay, on the ribbon my one says T4001-UK in part of the model number.
>the only one's I can find are labeled with T4001-US on the ribbon. now what
>I need to know is would this be ok for my laptop ?

So sounds like you're in the UK. The keyboard will be a US keyboard,
if that's what you're seeing on eBay.

Are you a touch typer? The main difference is your keyboard now on the
4 key has a pound - currency symbol right? The US keyboard would have
a dollar ($) sign. But - I'm pretty sure of this - if you hit the
shift four, you'll get the pound symbol (currency). There's probably
other differences too - I seem to recall a few differences.

Assuming this is the keyboard
http://www.powerbrixx.com/images/SKU_6942_PB1.jpg

Take a look and see what keys are different.

Like I said, I'm fairly certain that the key will work the way it
SHOULD, but the physical key will have the US versions.

I looked on eBay for Toshiba M40 UK keyboard, and found quite a
few.... That may work for you.
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On Thu, 14 May 2009 12:10:30 -0700, Evan Platt wrote:

> Take a look and see what keys are different.

Well,beginning from the top left:

US has '@' where '"' should be.

US has '#' where '£' should be.

US has a key to the right of that which has '{' and '[' which types '\'
and '|'. This key on my keyboard lives between the left shift key and 'z'.

The two keys to the right of the 'L' key here type ';' and ':', ''' and
'@' respectively. The next key to the right of these types the hash symbol
(#) and the tilde (~).

The keyboard in your picture has an extra key between the left 'Alt' key
and the space bar which seems to show that it types the tilde and '''.



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