{"id":323,"date":"2009-06-30T12:58:14","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T19:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kernelcrash.com\/blog\/?p=323"},"modified":"2009-06-30T12:58:14","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T19:58:14","slug":"yet-another-macbook-keyboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kernelcrash.com\/blog\/yet-another-macbook-keyboard\/2009\/06\/30\/","title":{"rendered":"Yet another Macbook keyboard"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve had my Macbook almost one year now. When I bought it (an apple refurbished model), I noticed that a lot of keys didn’t register very well, and I ended up replacing the macbook keyboard<\/a>. That second hand replacement keyboard has served me well for the past 10 months or so, but recently it’s started to fall apart. First it started as a small chip breaking off in the lower right corner of the front face, but a week later, there was a long crack near the chip where I knew the whole thing would break off eventually.<\/p>\n

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So yes the keyboard still worked, but it looked pretty awful. I’m often at client sites with the laptop and it is slightly embarrassing to turn up with a broken looking laptop. So off to ebay we go, and I bought yet another replacement keyboard. Three keyboards in 12 months is pretty sad. I quite like OSX as a platform, but apple hardware quality is definitely debatable.<\/p>\n

Now, the original keyboard on my macbook is what is often called a V3 keyboard (at least that’s what a lot of ebay sellers call it). It has the mute\/softer\/louder buttons over F10, F11 and F12. A V2 keyboard has the mute\/softer\/louder over the F3, F4 and F5 keys. There’s a few other differences as well. My 2nd keyboard (the one now with the crack in it) was a V2 keyboard. It was in good condition when I bought it. I probably prefer the layout of the V2 keyboard over the V3, but this time I ended up buying another V3 keyboard on ebay. It was a factory second with some scuff marks on it that you can only see if you angle the keyboard in the light a certain way. My thoughts are that its effectively brand new, so hopefully it will last more than 10 months.<\/p>\n

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