Comments on: Reports online of Macbook/Macbook Pro Leopard Keyboard problems

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:05:45 +0000

It’s been happening to me since I got my pro (9/08). It’s a software issue and I don’t understand why apple doesn’t fix it.

By: Guy

Guy — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:45:46 +0000

I am working on a MacBook Pro with the same problem Leopard 10.5.8. Keyboard & trackpad un-responsive. I hooked up an external mouse and it worked fine while the built in keyboard and trackpad were still not functioning. This happened after the machine had been sleeping. I am wondering if it happened on wakeup. The first thing I tried after walking the computer was the brightness keys since the screen was really dim. Repair permissions fixed a bunch of stuff, not sure of they will fix the problem. I have to believe that this is a software probelm.

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 10:44:49 +0000

I have a MacBook Air running Mac OS X Version 10.5.8.

The touchpad and the keyboard used to become unresponsive at random times for about 5 to 10 secs. I’m not sure when it started.

It become a much better when I did “repair disk permissions”. Disk activity used to be up everytime it freezed.

By: dan mackinlay

dan mackinlay — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 02:05:16 +0000

I’m amazed that no-one has mentioned troubles with 3rd party drivers. I had problems with my keystrokes vanishing – the control/shift/command keys would still work but all the letters and ‘delete’ and spacebar would not. Didn’t always occur, but after a few minutes in my image editing software (pixelmator) the problem would occur. It turns out the problem was with my wacom graphire3 driver, which was stil usign the leopard driver. Upgrading to the snow leopard driver fixed the problem instantly (without even a reboot)

By: amir

amir — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:24:04 +0000

I have the same problem on my macbook. I’ts not hardware. it has to be the software.

When will apple fix little things like this? it drives me crazy that I can’t type a c at times.