Posted on June 30th, 2008 by Matthew Sparkes
My guilty secret ad the problem with my “” 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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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?
June 30th, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Well, it’s working intermittently….
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.
June 30th, 2008 at 2:05 pm
@ Matthew
From your pocket? o_O
June 30th, 2008 at 8:56 pm
You’re not going to get much sympathy from me… P.S. Nah nah nah nah nnnnnnnnnah
July 1st, 2008 at 10:24 am
At least you havent had a P in your pocket…
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.
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!