Letter "f" on keyboard is very sensitive (PROBLEM)

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Letter "f" on keyboard is very sensitive (PROBLEM)

I just got my new MBP in today. I love it. But i have one problem.

As anyone would place there fingers on the keyboard to type, i have my left pointer finger on the letter "f" and the right pointer figure in the "j". I lay my figure tips on the keyboard even when I'm not typing as I'm reading or about to type more. For some reason the letter "f" key is so sensitive where I can just BARELY lay my finger on it and it'll type out "f" and then repeat the "f" ("fffffff....") without me even knowing it. Next thing you know I'm typing out letters near the f and may touch the key and an f would be in the word I'm typing. I thought it was just my fat fingers but apparently it's a key issue.

Please help me with this, it's actually starting to get annoying.

Thanks,

Toan

Mac Book Pro Late 2008 Model, Mac OS X (10.5.5)

Posted on Oct 22, 2008 3:06 PM

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s8m2s

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Oct 27, 2008 9:41 AM in response to djsupert

I had this problem with my old tibook keyboard. only in my case it was a over sensitive "9" key. Told apple about it and they mailed me a new keyboard, no problem. I don't know how hard it is to replace the keyboard on the new macbook pro's though. on the TiBook the keyboard was removable so you could get at the ram, so the keyboard was user serviceable.

If you have a local apple store near by, take it in to them. They'll take care of it.
If there's nothing else wrong with your new MacBook see if they can just replace the keyboard and not the whole laptop. you might end up worse then you started.

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