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#1 User is offline   Stone 

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Posted 12 January 2009 - 04:16 AM

I seem to have gotten some foreign matter under a few keys. At least it feels that way, and I need to press hard to get them to register.

Can I just pop off the keys and clean underneath, or will this break the key?
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Posted 12 January 2009 - 04:25 AM

just throw the computer away and buy a new one. did you even bother to read the owners' manual?
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Posted 12 January 2009 - 04:33 AM

my mac has a keyboard release where you can pop off the whole board to clean it, does yours? if so I would take a dry toothbrush and see if you can get it clean
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Posted 12 January 2009 - 04:35 AM

I don't think so. It's a Macbook.
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Posted 12 January 2009 - 04:43 AM

This site suggests that you can pop the keys off. Click on the picture thumbnails to get better photos.
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Posted 12 January 2009 - 02:03 PM

Have you tried blowing the crud out? I keep a can of pressurized air on hand for just such dilemmi. You can get it at Staples. I'd try that before I went popping the keys off (I tried to remove one once, and it's never been right again).
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Posted 12 January 2009 - 02:19 PM

The keys aren't easy to remove and replace. Take it to an Apple store; they'll do it for free. Or Tekserve.
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Posted 12 January 2009 - 06:07 PM

I had something similar happen right after the new year: the kid spilled a glass of water on my MacBook keyboard and it stopped working. The Apple Store just replaced the whole keyboard (at no cost to me, but it was under warranty.)
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Posted 12 January 2009 - 06:12 PM

I found a bottle of pressurized air, and it seems to have solved the problem.
I'll keep you informed, daily, if not hourly, of the progress.
Well, probably not hourly since I only use my laptop in the evenings.
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