Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!
Some gy splled coffee on my laptop on the way to work this mornng now the letter between y and o on the top row of letters wont work nor will the semycolon, apostrophe and the nmber between 6 and 8.
Ts a real pain in the arse.
Anyone got any tps. Obveeosly eye can yoos an external keyboard, bt thats not eyedeal.
Dont laff, ths s lke havng a major speech mpedment….
(thank god for atocomplete or eye never wood have got to cracknt.com!)
That happened to me at 2am on the night before my final year project at uni was due to be handed in. Not fun, in the end I managed to find a replacement keyboard on ebay, but fitting it was horrendous – I hope you have insurance ;)
Nsrance nsrance, of corse dont have nsrance! Oh bgger.
Get one of these.
http://www.amazon.com/ProTouch-Keyboard-Protector-MacBook-Arctic/dp/B000J05PLA
I’m not sure about onscreen keyboards with macs, windows luckily has one for those emergency cases :(
I could ask someone at the Apple store later today what happens in this scenario and whether they can do anything about it or you’re, well, fucked. If it’s of any help.
But before you buy the keyboard cover for those long train journeys where comuters balance coffee on their finger tips try this:
http://blog.nonverbla.de/blog/2006/11/12/how-to-clean-your-macbook-pro-keyboard/
You should be able to take the keyboard out and wash it with water. That may not help, but it might be worth a try bearing in mind my next sentence.
Generally, if you spill coffee on a laptop it’s fucked. So I’m reliably informed.
Thanks for all the help. You guys are nice.
I’ve got a shiny new USB keyboard for now. It’s not very portable, but it means I can communicate with the outside world again via keys :-)
Rich at Poke also sent this:
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=ukelele
Which means I could remap my broken keys to less useful ones – but I’m worried I’ll mutate into someone that uses | instead of i everywhere I go.
Looks like I’m too late, but my advice would be to type as a pirate. You already tested the water with “eye never wood have got to cracknt.com!”
Blogging on the high seas… give it a go.
Try wet wipes, if that doesn’t work, take it to an apple service centre rather than a genius bar.