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Posted on June 30th, 2008 by Matthew Sparkes

My guilty secret ad the problem with my “” key

MacBook N key

I have a guilty secret; although I work o PC Pro, I’m actually a avid Mac ethusiast. I fact, I’ve bee called a fa-boy by some in the past.

They’re everythig I eed from a PC. After a day istalling bechmarks, swappig out hardware ad searchig for drivers, all I wat is a machie that works well ad ever eeds tikerig with. The gorgeous OS and chassis desigs are a ice bous, too.

I’ve ever had ay problems with my Apple laptops, eve though I treat them very badly. My iBook survived over two years of beig throw i a bag, kocked and bumped, picked up at oe corer and geerally treated as a everyday workhorse, before fially givig up because of a broke power adapter plug.

That’s why I’m disappoited that my MacBook has developed a slight fault after less tha half this time – the “” key has falle off, that’s the oe betwee “M” and “O” i the alphabet, and “B” and “M” on the QWERTY keyboard. Ufortunately, my “” key is i my pocket, istead.

I’ll be takig it i to the Mac store later this week to see what they ca do – hopefully I wo’t eed to leave it with them, or I’ll have to tidy up ad remove all my fiacial documets and photographs. I’ll keep you posted.

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8 Responses to “ My guilty secret ad the problem with my “” key ”

  1. bioreit Says:
    June 30th, 2008 at 12:41 pm

    11 instances of the supposedly missing letter in the above piece.

    Tsk tsk.

    Although, to be fair, I only noticed number 9, before back-tracking and counting them up!
    Assume this was typed on a backup machine? ;-)

     
  2. Matthew Sparkes Says:
    June 30th, 2008 at 12:47 pm

    Well, it’s working intermittently….

    :)

     
  3. Matthew Powell Says:
    June 30th, 2008 at 1:02 pm

    I’m a technical support assistant.

    I’m not entirely familiar with the latest Mac OS. However, one can easily presume that Macintosh would have added an on-screen, click-able software keyboard (akin to Microsoft’s Accessibility On-screen keyboard) for such dire circumstances as yours.

    …You’d have thought at least.

     
  4. bioreit Says:
    June 30th, 2008 at 2:05 pm

    @ Matthew

    From your pocket? o_O

     
  5. Peterwgtennant Says:
    June 30th, 2008 at 8:56 pm

    You’re not going to get much sympathy from me… P.S. Nah nah nah nah nnnnnnnnnah

     
  6. Gindylow Says:
    July 1st, 2008 at 10:24 am

    At least you havent had a P in your pocket…

     
  7. nicksimws Says:
    July 2nd, 2008 at 1:06 pm

    Well, actually there is the keyboard viewer in Leopard – International pane, Input menu. Terrible, keys falling off. The only key that ever fell off a computer of mine was the shift key. Expected it though, that laptop had cracks in the corner after a 5 cm drop.

     
  8. Steve Cassidy Says:
    July 7th, 2008 at 11:28 am

    a) reach across desk

    b) steal PC USB keyboard

    c) plug in to laptop

    d) go through Apple wizard so it knows what the layout is (3 clicks one keypress)

    …Job’s a good ‘un!

     

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