I'm assuming that you are attaching an additional keyboard to your laptop. In that case, I would choose a US keyboard. Some heavily used punctuation character

I'm assuming that you are attaching an additional keyboard to your laptop. In that case, I would choose a US keyboard. Some heavily used punctuation characters are in more convenient positions than on a German keyboard (I looked at the MacBook version). As for relearning, it really depends on how much material you write in German. I'm multilingual and switch the MBP keyboard to suit various languages, but it is a pain, trying to get the various accented characters correctly. I certainly can't touch type in anything but English on the US layout. If only there was an extended keyboard with all European accented characters accessible with a single keystroke and in "logical" positions. The iPad on-screen keyboard solution to this problem is commendable, but still slows me down. Maybe a programmable keyboard is your answer, e.g. http://www.touchwindow.com/c/CherryIndustrialProgrammableMSRKeyboard.html http://www.touchwindow.com/c/CherryIndustrialProgrammableMSR...