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Mac Forum / Country Specific / UK Mac Group / February 2008MBP keyboard update
Not heard much noise about this but system update popped up with a keyboard updater that claims to fix a few things, including the is-it- just-me-with-fat-fingers problem of the first character of typing being missed off - which i tended to see mostly when logging in. seems to have done the job, too: my typing accuracy seems to have improved, which is pretty good for a software update... > Not heard much noise about this but system update popped up with a > keyboard updater that claims to fix a few things, including the is-it- > just-me-with-fat-fingers problem of the first character of typing > being missed off - which i tended to see mostly when logging in. > seems to have done the job, too: my typing accuracy seems to have > improved, which is pretty good for a software update... When was this and which version OS X? My MBP on Tiger doesn't show any such update. I would like to know as I've noticed the problem as well. For me it only seems to have started relatively recently (since last security update, maybe?). > > Not heard much noise about this but system update popped up with a > > keyboard updater that claims to fix a few things, including the is-it- [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > seems to have started relatively recently (since last security update, > maybe?). Leopard-only, after a bit of a google. http://www.tuaw.com/2008/02/19/macbook-mb-pro-keyboard-update/ I've never run Tiger on this MBP so don't know if the same problem exists. I wasn't 100% sure it existed under Leopard, to be honest: I just seemed to be making more typos than normal. What made me think it was a bug was my repeated login failure. Always worked 2nd time... The update's fixed it, though. Ric > > > Not heard much noise about this but system update popped up with a > > > keyboard updater that claims to fix a few things, including the is-it- [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > I've never run Tiger on this MBP so don't know if the same problem > exists. It did indeed. I have the mid 2007 MacBook Pro model, purchased in June and running on 10.4.9 or 10.4.10 for several months, and I was aware of this problem from day one. It seems that Apple have released this patch as a firwmare update which only runs under Leopard. Unless there is some technical reason why they can't install the same firmware update under Tiger, this seems to just be bloody mindedness on their part: they are trying to encourage anyone suffering this problem to upgrade to Leopard. A possible cheeky workaround: if you have access to another Mac which is running Leopard, you might be able to boot the MacBook Pro from the other computer's hard drive (involving Firewire target mode), install the keyboard update, then reboot back into Tiger.  SignatureDavid Empson dempson@actrix.gen.nz >>> Not heard much noise about this but system update popped up with a >>> keyboard updater that claims to fix a few things, including the is-it- [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > it was a bug was my repeated login failure. Always worked 2nd time... > The update's fixed it, though. This has definitely affected my machine. Especially after the screensaver/lock has kicked in, on getting back to the desktop the first key-press is often ignored. I haven't noticed it the last few days, however. Maybe I'm just getting used to it? In article <25394c1c-5bee-4c53-b9ee-3b86e8a1dc55@c33g2000hsd.googlegroups.com>, > > > Not heard much noise about this but system update popped up with a > > > keyboard updater that claims to fix a few things, including the is-it- [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > Ric You are lucky, Ric. The keyboard update did NOT fix the missing-the-1st-char problem on my MacBook Pro. Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz CPU Number of Cores 2 Memory 4 GB Boot ROM ver MBP31.0070.B02 OS 10.5.2 Wonder if the very recent MacBook Pros are still afflicted with this problem. Mark- |
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