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Got a Macbook Pro in 2016. As of today, the E, R, and T keys have all stopped working. Apple wants $500 for a logic board replacement. It was fine when it was

Got a Macbook Pro in 2016. As of today, the E, R, and T keys have all stopped working. Apple wants $500 for a logic board replacement. It was fine when it was just the R key. Sort of. I set up bash scripts to copy-paste "r" to my clipboard, and just pressed command-V instead of "r". But then the T key went out.

xiongwei_13 9y ago
Use mechanical keyboards. I use touch keyboards is easy bad.
owenwil 9y ago
Hooo boy, I've had three replacements and now they insist it's my fault despite it being <1 year.
cmurf 9y ago
Check your credit card, it might have an extended warranty that applies after the manufacturer warranty expires. Amex for sure does this automatically, doubles the warranty up to one additional year.
arithmetization 9y ago
I once had the same problem with an old Macbook Air and stubbornly used Ukulele to create a keyboard layout that let me chord around four dead keys with alt and the key directly below. It's not a long term solution, but it might help in a pinch.
KayL 9y ago
My Macbook's J,K,L was broken and I clone the English input and re-mapping them into Shift+ "M,<,>" http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=ukelele http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=...
- dvfjsdhgfv 9y ago
  That's hilarious. And yesterday I read someone's comment on HN that Apple support is "the best in the world". But seriously, something is really wrong here.
madmax108 9y ago
My girlfriend's new Macbook air had the up arrow key literally pop out when the laptop was just sitting idle. I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes. Take it to the Apple store, and again spend time having to listen to how it's human misuse that caused it. After a lot of dramatics, and having to explain that the system was barely 2 months old and not even used for heavy stuff like gaming or number crunching, before they finally replaced it under warranty with no charge! That single incident removed years of faith my girlfriend had with Apple (she's been using Apple systems continuously since 2012 or so)

xiongwei_13 9y ago

Use mechanical keyboards. I use touch keyboards is easy bad.

owenwil 9y ago

Hooo boy, I've had three replacements and now they insist it's my fault despite it being <1 year.

cmurf 9y ago

Check your credit card, it might have an extended warranty that applies after the manufacturer warranty expires. Amex for sure does this automatically, doubles the warranty up to one additional year.

arithmetization 9y ago

I once had the same problem with an old Macbook Air and stubbornly used Ukulele to create a keyboard layout that let me chord around four dead keys with alt and the key directly below. It's not a long term solution, but it might help in a pinch.

KayL 9y ago

My Macbook's J,K,L was broken and I clone the English input and re-mapping them into Shift+ "M,<,>" http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=ukelele http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=...

dvfjsdhgfv 9y ago
That's hilarious. And yesterday I read someone's comment on HN that Apple support is "the best in the world". But seriously, something is really wrong here.

madmax108 9y ago

My girlfriend's new Macbook air had the up arrow key literally pop out when the laptop was just sitting idle. I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes. Take it to the Apple store, and again spend time having to listen to how it's human misuse that caused it. After a lot of dramatics, and having to explain that the system was barely 2 months old and not even used for heavy stuff like gaming or number crunching, before they finally replaced it under warranty with no charge! That single incident removed years of faith my girlfriend had with Apple (she's been using Apple systems continuously since 2012 or so)