Filed under: Portables, Software Update, Macbook Pro, MacBook
MacBook and MacBookPro get keyboard update
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.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 3)
moo083 said 5:25PM on 2-19-2008
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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Big John said 5:44PM on 2-19-2008
Just those two MacBook models? What about the Air?
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Carlos Fonseca said 7:43PM on 2-19-2008
Does it have this annoyance?
Big John said 8:19PM on 2-19-2008
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?
Simon Arch said 8:44PM on 2-19-2008
As the Nike marketing droids like to say, Just do it! Give it a shot and see what happens.
THJ said 5:45PM on 2-19-2008
Good, I'm not crazy.
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Jellomld said 5:56PM on 2-19-2008
OMG OMG OMG OMFG
enough said.
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Phenixone said 6:16PM on 2-19-2008
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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Brian said 6:07PM on 2-19-2008
emms to work... just kidding seems to work fine.
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Macfan said 6:10PM on 2-19-2008
Ha! I had noticed that. I'm glad it's fixed
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Carroll Wills said 6:11PM on 2-19-2008
Finally! This has been a minor annoyance for some time.
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fhyageu said 6:19PM on 2-19-2008
ooray! it's finally here!!!
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JKT said 6:23PM on 2-19-2008
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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Carlos Fonseca said 7:41PM on 2-19-2008
"Software Update" for the win…
JKT said 7:48PM on 2-19-2008
>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.
Carlos Fonseca said 7:59PM on 2-19-2008
ok... you've got a point... didn't thought of that
XIV said 6:23PM on 2-19-2008
I thought it was an update to allow us to rotate, resize, etc. :(
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Allison said 6:37PM on 2-19-2008
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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Carlos Fonseca said 7:40PM on 2-19-2008
but do you have the problem? I don't remember having this annoyance back in tiger...
CMart said 8:52PM on 2-19-2008
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 :(