Has this resurrection caused me to renew my faith in these new MacBooks? Lordy, no. Until, that is, something else goes wrong with this machine, I take it to an Apple Genius and they declare: "My investigation shows microscopic fruit scone fragments, buried deep within, are causing your MacBook Air to crash." Which leads me only to search for explanations.Ĭould it be that some speck of dust beneath my M key has finally disappeared to the dust bowl in the sky? Could it be that my constant bashing finally crushed a tiny piece of butter croissant into pieces so infinitesimal that they could no longer affect my M key? I can write "mmmmmmm" and do it with ease. It's simply stopped throwing its tantrum. It was like a hiccup that had suddenly disappeared, a cut that had mysteriously healed, a Twitter troll who had oddly liked one of my tweets.Īs I write, my M key is reborn. Last week, however, something strange happened. I'd bash, it would resist and I'd tell myself I'd persevere. It was as if I could pick at an especially obstinate zit and it would finally go away.
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Honestly, at times this was conscious bashing of the M key. I trained the appropriate fingers of my right hand to hit down on the M far harder than on any of the other keys. I kept on pressing, ever more conscious of the effort involved in making sure that touching the M key would translate to the letter M on my screen. I want to see just how useless this third-generation keyboard truly is." I want to discover whether more keys will succumb to this obvious and desperate design flaw.
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I'm determined, in fact, to see how long it'll be before my M becomes entirely inoperative. Yet, instead of rushing to an Apple store on my return to the US, I resolved to take a different path.Īs I wrote at the time: "So now I'm determined. The mere thought that a new Apple product could be so abjectly made - and mine wasn't the only one - was painful to (what's left of) my soul. This was a little unfortunate as I was in Lisbon, where I was told a repair might take 30 days. I'd press it harder and it would resist more.
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Regular sufferers of this column will know that I bought a MacBook Air and, within months of my purchase, the M key was suddenly wonky.Īpple's entry-level iPad features a 10.2‑inch Retina display, support for the full-size Smart Keyboard, and iPadOS. Now, Cupertino whispers that it's changing the design for the third time. Indeed, one Apple store saleswoman told me it was now impossible for dust or my croissant remnants to get under the keys - this seemed to be the root cause of such keyboard problems - because Apple had placed an extra layer of film beneath the second version of the keyboard. I was told that no, no, there was absolutely nothing wrong with the keyboards. I went to two Apple stores to find some truth. Then it conceded that a few customers were having, you know, slight issues. I suppose you could call it a sticky ending.Īt first, Apple refused to believe there was a problem. It functions about as well as many of the world's current governments. Principally, the problem has been the keyboard. The legend of the latest MacBooks and their unworthiness has continually grown like a creepy cactus on your front porch.
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