MacBook and MacBookPro get keyboard update - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

Sonofabitch!

Today Apple released a keyboard update for both the MacBook and the MacBook Pro notebooks. In regular Apple style, their release notes are not extremely profuse, "This MacBook and MacBook Pro firmware update addresses an issue where the first key press may be ignored if the computer has been sitting idle. It also addresses some other issues."

[From MacBook and MacBookPro get keyboard update - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)]

I had been putting up with this crap for a month, assuming that my keyboard was dirty! I even got as far as dissecting the "T" key because it consistently missed presses. This is no trivial matter, the scissor mechanism under the keys is extremely delicate. And I can't even install the damn thing because it requires 10.5 and I haven't updated yet.

Worn out "A" and "S"

Further proof of the volatile way in which conversations change subject in #asp (Undernet):

3:19 PM VP|MBP interesting how worn out are my "A" and "S" keys



3:19 PM VP|MBP it's not like I write "ass" nonstop 24 x 7



3:19 PM unEZ holy shit so are mine

And here's the photographic proof: