Full FeedLeopard bringing Macbook/Macbook Pro keyboard freezes
Leopard is good. Very good. Super very good when compared to Vista. But it’s not without it’s flaws. It seems that Leopard is the main cause for Macbook and Macbook Pro keyboard problems. Appleinsider is reporting that many users are having problems with their Intel portable’s keyboard shutting down. This seems to happen at random times, and can only be solved by restarting the computer, or putting it to sleep, and waking it up again.
I for one have experienced this problem once on my new MacBook Pro. I was using 10.5.1, which is the latest current version of Leopard, and the keyboard randomly stopped working. Everything I typed had no effect. Keyboard shortcuts, volume control, everything. The rest of the computer though functioned fine. After a quick reboot however, I have never experienced it again. “I took my MacBook into the Apple Store today,” notes one MacBook owner. “I told [Apple’s Geniuses] about this thread and they basically dismissed the idea that it could have something to do with Leopard. [...] I think it’s strange that they don’t even want to listen to any ideas.” I hope Apple is working on addressing this internally, and will be released as a bug update via firmware, or part of 10.5.2.
Read [Appleinsider]
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I have a dreadful problem with my MacBook Pro (it has OS X 10.5.8); the keyboard constantly freezes in MS Word (2004). A new problem—started a couple of months ago, was occasional, now all the time. I just updated the software (Mac OS X 10.5.8) imagining this would do it: the only change is that now the keyboard still works but switches out of MS Word, abandoning the program, so I am left able to type in some places (for example in the Mac help box menu), and use the track pad on the desktop, but I am no longer able to type in the MS Word doc. When I check “force quit” to find out if the MS Word program has crashed, there is no indication that it has crashed. I am in the middle of a project with a deadline and I find this maddening. Can someone advise me?
on September 29, 2009 at 07:29 PM - LINKI’ve had my otherwise fantastic MBP for over a year without flaw, but then it developed the keyboard freezing.
Try this:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1365569&start=0&tstart=0
on November 17, 2009 at 06:53 PM - LINK