Seriously now, it seems that what happens is the unavoidable: Apple, like almost any other manufacturer, is affected by the general quality decline in computer industry.
I have in the house a Wallstreet Powerbook, that is approaching seven years of trouble free life now. Only in this year I have seen a little wear on the Cmd key. Not fading away though, just a little wear in one corner.
I agree completely. we are seeing the complete degradation of quality - and that goes for all computers. As I said, I have had my ibook for 6 months! I went ahead and put scrapbooking stickers over the LNDC keys until I trek to the applestore for a replacement. It appears that they will replace the entire keypaid - so I will get that done. In the meantime, I have an interesting keyboard look now!
My ibook was purchased in April of this year. I just called apple support and they are sending out a new keyboard to replace the old one. They said "just dispose of the current one" - 1 year warr. on parts :0) Very happy!
Any chance of getting a replacement for a barely out of warranty iBook? My iBook was out of warranty at the end of August and I have about 10 keys that are very worn.
Failing that, what is the Apple price on a replacement keyboard?
The bulb on my dad's halogen lamp fell on top of his iBook's keyboard and melted/distorted about seven of the keys on his keyboard... we took it to the Apple store in San Diego and they were really nice: they pulled out a couple of used iBook keyboards and unsnapped the keys off of those and snapped them in place of my dad's distorted ones. they actually went through a few until they found all of the missing keys.
The bulb on my dad's halogen lamp fell on top of his iBooks's keyboard and melted/distorted about seven of the keys on his keyboard... we took it to the Apple store in San Diego and they were really nice: they pulled out a couple of used ibook keyboards and unsnapped the keys off of those and snapped them in place of my dad's distorted ones. they actually went through a few 'cause until they found all of the missing keys.
That was nice of them. If it's less than 1 year old,I would call up apple now and order a replacement keyboard.
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Originally posted by craftymacgirl
Yesterday, was the end of the L on my keyboard. You can't see it anymore. It's worn off. The N is next, then the C, D & M are fading fast.
Is this normal? Under warantee?
TIA!
That's weird. The frequency order of English letters is E-T-A-O-I-N-S. So one would think that the E would go first.
Since my D & L went first, that makes sense :0)
my "N" looks like "|", and my a,s, and d are on the way out
never had this happen before
Originally posted by lundy
That's weird. The frequency order of English letters is E-T-A-O-I-N-S. So one would think that the E would go first.
But if he uses google a lot and types P-O-R-N is a whole other matter!
Originally posted by Anders
Its a feature, people.
Seriously now, it seems that what happens is the unavoidable: Apple, like almost any other manufacturer, is affected by the general quality decline in computer industry.
I have in the house a Wallstreet Powerbook, that is approaching seven years of trouble free life now. Only in this year I have seen a little wear on the Cmd key. Not fading away though, just a little wear in one corner.
I will have to post a pic later.
Originally posted by craftymacgirl
In the meantime, I have an interesting keyboard look now!
I will have to post a pic later.
Yeah, I would like to see it .
I will post a pic in a minute!
Failing that, what is the Apple price on a replacement keyboard?
wish I could help
Originally posted by RANSOMED
The bulb on my dad's halogen lamp fell on top of his iBooks's keyboard and melted/distorted about seven of the keys on his keyboard... we took it to the Apple store in San Diego and they were really nice: they pulled out a couple of used ibook keyboards and unsnapped the keys off of those and snapped them in place of my dad's distorted ones. they actually went through a few 'cause until they found all of the missing keys.
That was nice of them. If it's less than 1 year old,I would call up apple now and order a replacement keyboard.