Comments on: MacBook Drops, Keyboard Irks

By: me

me — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 07:35:27 +0000

how do you see the keys in the dark if there is no backlight?

coz… u no its black so seeing the keys in the dark must be hard?

By: Armani S.

Armani S. — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:21:21 +0000

I AM A DIE HARD MAC LOVER!!! BUT… The MacBook keyboard IS, in fact, very STIFF in comparison to the iBook G4 keyboard (which I had for 3 years). I feel like I have to BEAT UP the keyboard to type a sentence. I’ve had it sense May 9 and I STILL can’t break it in. I don’t know, maybe I have to use it more? But I use it for hours pretty much EVERYDAY; how much more can I possibly use it?

By: MacMan

MacMan — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:32:11 +0000

I loved my powerbook’s keyboard…Then i upgraded to my macbook, and hated the keyboard. 5 days later i loved it. much better strokes, and the keys are very nice. I dont see where you are coming from with this one

By: bill

bill — Fri, 30 May 2008 17:31:41 +0000

From what I gather I must be one of the few who enjoys the MacBook keyboard. It’s actually my favorite keyboard to type on, and I use a Microsoft Natural Ergonomic 4000 with my peecee, and one of those crappy Apple USB keyboards from the iMac G3 days with my Power Mac G4. (And then there’s the crappier Dell keyboard at work, but let’s not go there.)

I used to have a Compaq laptop and I despised its keyboard. It lacked solidity; it felt too springy. The MacBook’s keyboard, OTOH, is reassuringly solid, and I can type for hours on end (I know because I have) without it bothering me. That’s a feat I can’t pull off with any of the external keyboards I have, the Microsoft one excluded. Now if they’d get around to fixing the one-button trackpad at Apple (it’s a real PITA to have that one button in Windows, even with the Boot Camp drivers), I’d be looking into buying another Mac laptop, but as it stands now, I’m looking at a Thinkpad T-series to replace it with.

I’m actually so used to the feel of my MacBook’s keyboard that I’m considering replacing the long-in-the-tooth crappy Apple keyboard on my Power Mac with one of those new aluminum keyboards.

By: user

user — Thu, 22 May 2008 17:27:51 +0000

Agreed, there exists what I would call a serious flaw in mac typing.

I am referring to a Macbook 13.

I have hooked up an external mac keyboard and experience the same intermittent typing of letters on the external as attached… its not a factor of striking the keys hard, its a matter of outright missed characters, not a manufacturing defect but somehow the strokes are not recorded. Often, the first key pressed is missed, however, it happens mid-sentence as well, typically two or three characters in a sentence.

I’ve disabled all power saving, and typeamatic delays, etc. to no avail.

Two keyboards, same problem tells me there is something inherently amiss in software- perhaps a buffer?

I would concur that this is a terrible oversight to those of us who are on the computer all day, which is basically the entire business community.

Please fix me.

By: user

user — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 15:21:58 +0000

just use a sledge hammer to press the keys- always remember to pound twice on the first keyed entry and everything will be fine.

By: mulpAcuct

mulpAcuct — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 05:06:07 +0000

Hello!
How are you?

By: andreas838

andreas838 — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 02:39:23 +0000

Totally agree with you on the keyboard issue. I want to switch back to Mac from my Thinkpad, but the lousy keyboard on the MacBook is stopping me as 15″ and above (Pro models) is simply too large for laptop.