Today Apple released a keyboard update for both the MacBook and the MacBook Pro notebooks. In regular Apple style, their release notes are not extremely profuse, "This MacBook and MacBook Pro firmware update addresses an issue where the first key press may be ignored if the computer has been sitting idle. It also addresses some other issues."Please note, this is a firmware upgrade that will install an application in the utilities folder that you will then, in turn, need to open and follow the on-screen instructions. For a list of MacBooks that may need the update, you can look at the Apple support note.
If you computer has been affect by these issues, or if you are just inclined to installing all Apple updates, you can get this update by opening Software Update (Apple Menu > Software Update) or by downloading the installer package from the Apple Support downloads site.
Thanks to everyone that sent this in!
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
2-19-2008 @ 5:25PM
moo083 said...
Does this affect ALL Macbook Pro users? Just curious, can't remotely connect to my computer and check cause my fiance shut it before she left a while ago :P
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2-19-2008 @ 5:44PM
Big John said...
Just those two MacBook models? What about the Air?
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2-19-2008 @ 7:43PM
Carlos Fonseca said...
Does it have this annoyance?
2-19-2008 @ 8:19PM
Big John said...
Good question. Usually don't have my Air "sitting idle" unless sleep mode counts.
Let me rephrase for the rest of the pedantic crowd: If I were to run Software Update on my Air, would this update show up?
2-19-2008 @ 8:44PM
Simon Arch said...
As the Nike marketing droids like to say, Just do it! Give it a shot and see what happens.
2-19-2008 @ 5:45PM
THJ said...
Good, I'm not crazy.
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2-19-2008 @ 5:56PM
Jellomld said...
OMG OMG OMG OMFG
enough said.
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2-19-2008 @ 6:07PM
Brian said...
emms to work... just kidding seems to work fine.
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2-19-2008 @ 6:10PM
Macfan said...
Ha! I had noticed that. I'm glad it's fixed
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2-19-2008 @ 6:11PM
Carroll Wills said...
Finally! This has been a minor annoyance for some time.
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2-19-2008 @ 6:16PM
Phenixone said...
Oh My God !! is s inaly ver, o ore irst etter issing !!!! hehe I know I'm joking, any I've been waiting for this update for ever !!!! this is pretty awesome !!! Thx Steve
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2-19-2008 @ 6:19PM
fhyageu said...
ooray! it's finally here!!!
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2-19-2008 @ 6:23PM
JKT said...
Is everyone else able to open this? The download went OK and the .dmg mounts, but when I double-click the .pkg inside it appears in the Dock for about .25 seconds and then closes again. Copying to the Desktop and opening does the same. Redownloading does the same.
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2-19-2008 @ 7:41PM
Carlos Fonseca said...
"Software Update" for the win…
2-19-2008 @ 7:48PM
JKT said...
>Software Update
Thanks for the tip, but then why is it a separate download? This still implies the standalone installer is broken AND it prevents those of us who administer fleets of MB's and MBP's from pushing the update via ARD.
2-19-2008 @ 7:59PM
Carlos Fonseca said...
ok... you've got a point... didn't thought of that
2-19-2008 @ 6:23PM
XIV said...
I thought it was an update to allow us to rotate, resize, etc. :(
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2-19-2008 @ 6:37PM
Allison said...
You should have mentioned that this update is for Leopard users only.
For those of us who still like Tiger, we get squat.
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2-19-2008 @ 7:40PM
Carlos Fonseca said...
but do you have the problem? I don't remember having this annoyance back in tiger...
2-19-2008 @ 8:52PM
CMart said...
Carlos -- yes this does seem to happen to us Tiger users as well; and I was hoping this fix would help us Tiger people too, but alas :(