![]() I just ignored them as they couldn't pinpoint the issue to a single component. They told me it would cost €533 + VAT + labor to replace the topcase essentially the everything but the screen. First I took the laptop to an Premium Authorized Service Provider. Considering I travel somewhat frequently overseas and that it's now impossible to get an appointment with a Genius sooner than one week in the future, it's not wild to think sooner or later I will be stuck, for at least one week, with a very expensive paperweight. Also: one day I'll mess up and will need to boot in the Recovery partition and I cannot see a straightforward way to do that without going to an Apple store (honestly, I don't think themselves would be able to do it without fixing the laptop first, in which case my data would be lost, more on that now). So now we're like this: I have an €1300 laptop that hasn't even got three years which is surviving on patches to make the keyboard work, something that is costing me a lot of time considering the muscle memory we develop when we type for a long time on a keyboard. I know I can choose a startup disk from System preferences but guess what'll happen when I need to recover the OS because I messed up (this happens). ![]() ![]() I thought I had solved the problem, or at least offset it for a few months, when I realised that because the z key was interfering with the rest of the keyboard, I could not use Alt to dual boot on Linux or on the Recovery disk. But even then, I had to figure out which keys I had to remap (again, I have a Spanish keyboard) which not only has a different layout but also has a different number of keys). To be honest, it took me a while to realize that I could do the same I did with the z key and swap them using Karabiner. Then came the real problems: one morning I woke up having the keys are very used symbols in many languages. Also, this confirmed it was a hardware problem. I suppose the latter don't work because they're on the same column as the z. Except it is, think about not being able to Cmd + z every time you mess up, or for that matter, not being able to do Left Cmd + Q (quit application) or Left Cmd + A (select all). So I decided to move on and train my fingers to type z just next to the enter key, after all, "z" is not used that often when writing English or Spanish. I installed Karabiner Elements (the original Karabiner is still not available for MacOS Sierra) and after figuring out to which English key my Spanish ç corresponded, I was able to swap them.Īt that time I didn't know how much it'd cost to fix the keyboard but I figured out that, being Apple, they'll probably want to replace the whole keyboard if not anything else. I became convinced of this idea after spending another weekend in Valencia and seeing the key die again. I could not remember having hit the key too hard, let alone having spilled anything on the laptop. Then, after a week back in Madrid (humidity is usually below 40% here), it worked again. This came to my mind when after spending a week in Valencia, where it's usually soaking with humidity, the key failed for the first time. Humidity, is what I thought was the root cause of the problem with the key z in my keyboard. In truth, I had only begun a nightmare of dealing with all sorts of problems related to startup, modifier keys and more importantly my own sanity. ![]() ![]() Then, when it seemed like it had died forever, I felt relief, I cloud map another key to become z. It went off and then came back, sometimes normally, sometimes stuck so that you couldn't type anything else. It all started last November when my "z" key started to fail intermittently. ![]()
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