powerbook keyboard

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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
how do I remove the keyboard so I can clean it?

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  • Reply 1 of 10
    There are two small black squares on the top of the keyboard. One is to the right of the escape key, and the other is to the left of the eject key. Pull down from the top of them, and they should slide a little bit. Then just pull up and the keyboard should come out. Pretty simple.
  • Reply 2 of 10
    emaneman Posts: 7,204member
    [quote]Originally posted by rockets19:

    <strong>There are two small black squares on the top of the keyboard. One is to the right of the escape key, and the other is to the left of the eject key. Pull down from the top of them, and they should slide a little bit. Then just pull up and the keyboard should come out. Pretty simple.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    But that doesn't remove the whole keyboard from the computer. It's still attached. I know how to do it on iBooks but I don't know if the Powerbooks are exactly the same.
  • Reply 3 of 10
    paulpaul Posts: 5,278member
    how do you do it on an ibookZ



    i'll look @ my sister's and reverse engineer it...
  • Reply 4 of 10
    pyr3pyr3 Posts: 946member
    You forgot about the screw in the middle between the F5 and F6 keys. You need to undo that in addition to the two clips on the sides. If you are talking about detaching the cable to the PowerBook, I wouldn 't fool with that. At work, Dell wanted us to reinstall the screen to one of the laptops we have from them. We installed 5 screens that didn't work until they decided that it would cost them less for them to do it instead of us. Heh. Fooling around the inside of a laptop is delicate business from my experience. I only will fool with mine enough to upgrade RAM or replace HD. The cables are a lot more fragile than IDE cables and the like.
  • Reply 5 of 10
    defiantdefiant Posts: 4,876member
    it's still a mac, not a dell.



    this is for a PB:





    for an iBook:

    <a href="http://homepage.usask.ca/~cjn339/overclock/Images/19.jpg"; target="_blank"></a>

    Detaching the keyboard ribbon cable.



    <a href="http://homepage.usask.ca/~cjn339/overclock/Images/20.jpg"; target="_blank"></a>

    Detaching the trackpad ribbon cable.



    taken from <a href="http://homepage.usask.ca/~cjn339/overclock/"; target="_blank">here</a>



    forgot: CLICK 4 THE BIGGAR !



    [ 01-05-2003: Message edited by: Defiant ]</p>
  • Reply 6 of 10
    pyr3pyr3 Posts: 946member
    [quote]Originally posted by Defiant:

    <strong>it's still a mac, not a dell.



    this is for a PB:





    for an iBook:

    <a href="http://homepage.usask.ca/~cjn339/overclock/Images/19.jpg"; target="_blank"></a>

    Detaching the keyboard ribbon cable.



    <a href="http://homepage.usask.ca/~cjn339/overclock/Images/20.jpg"; target="_blank"></a>

    Detaching the trackpad ribbon cable.



    taken from <a href="http://homepage.usask.ca/~cjn339/overclock/"; target="_blank">here</a>



    forgot: CLICK 4 THE BIGGAR !



    [ 01-05-2003: Message edited by: Defiant ]</strong><hr></blockquote>



    I don't care which it is. I'm cautious about fooling around the insides of a $2000 item. Unless it's a desktop which I'm familiar with.
  • Reply 7 of 10
    razzfazzrazzfazz Posts: 728member
    [quote]Originally posted by pyr3:

    <strong>You forgot about the screw in the middle between the F5 and F6 keys. You need to undo that in addition to the two clips on the sides.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Not unless you manually locked that screw yourself - it leaves the factory in the unlocked position.



    Bye,

    RazzFazz
  • Reply 8 of 10
    defiantdefiant Posts: 4,876member
    [quote]Originally posted by pyr3:

    <strong>I don't care which it is. I'm cautious about fooling around the insides of a $2000 item. Unless it's a desktop which I'm familiar with.</strong><hr></blockquote>



    I won't comment. (Yeah, I know I just made one.)
  • Reply 9 of 10
    pyr3pyr3 Posts: 946member
    [quote]Originally posted by Defiant:

    <strong>



    I won't comment. (Yeah, I know I just made one.)</strong><hr></blockquote>



    That was useless. Heh. I was referring to my TiBook with that $2000 remark.
  • Reply 10 of 10
    pyr3pyr3 Posts: 946member
    [quote]Originally posted by RazzFazz:

    <strong>



    Not unless you manually locked that screw yourself - it leaves the factory in the unlocked position.



    Bye,

    RazzFazz</strong><hr></blockquote>



    My bad. I haven't actually taken the keyboard off. But I read the instructions on how to do it from Apple and it said to unscrew that. I wonder though ... what's the point of putting it there and not locking it? I don't care that much about it though, heh.
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