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I finally made the decision to buy the new 12" today. So I went down to the Apple Store, picked it up, brought it home and set it up. Everything seemed fine until I started typing. I have a whole row of keys that don't work - 7, U, J and M. Another long day tomorrow.
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See i you have the F6 function key depressed on the top row. That's a "number lock" key and it will cause strange typing behavior. CHeck on that and see if that's your problem. I hope so, b/c it's an easy fix!
Good luck. And you'll love your new PB.
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I would exchange it and hope for no damaged pixels.
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Seems like you do you have your number lock on... All the keys you listed are use the number lock. It happened to me too the first time i pressed it by accident. Thought it was kind of weird only certain keys didn't respond. I rebooted and everything... once i got to the password screen... i figured it out. Good luck.
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It's definitely Num Lock... it freaked me out a few times too 
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Just wanted to join the club, it freaked me out as well!
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<nelson>
Ah ha!
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Don't try to outweird me, I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal.
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Ronnie -- Is this the problem? We want to know! Post when you've tried out our solution.
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I'm going to go out on a limb and say that it's not num lock. If numlock was on, none of the keys on the left side of the keyboard would work. I think he would have mentioned if the whole left side was broken before mentioning that U, J, and M are giving him 4, 1, and 0 respectively. There's no way for the 7 key to malfunction, as it would map to a 7 if num lock was on or off.
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It was an intermitent problem that was getting worse with each boot. I had it exhanged today and am typing on it now. I'm pretty impressed with it - it's fast, the iLife 05 apps are also incredibly mature and speedy compared to 04. Apps launch very fast now! The only problems I have is that I have to get used to the lower resolution and the screen has a slightly milky whiteness to it. I found using the Color Calibrator and setting it to the TV Color Gamma 2:2 makes things look much better, richer color and better contrast. I just wish Apple would include some sort of X-Brite technology.
I also ran XBench on the old 1Ghz Alu 17" and the new machine. The new CPU was very fast and the 5200 is only 10% faster than the 4MX, but the odd result was that the 266Mhz DDR in the old machine gave a better result than the 333Mhz DDR in the new one. Memory benchmarks were higher across the board. Both have 512MB. Could that be down to the level 3 cache in the old model?
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Originally posted by lewd0006:
It's definitely Num Lock... it freaked me out a few times too
No, it was a faulty keyboard. My first PowerBook G3 had the same problem, keys 1, Q, A and Z. I knew right away.
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