macbook pro mid 2010 keyboard replacement

#Macbook pro mid 2010 keyboard replacement portable
#Macbook pro mid 2010 keyboard replacement Pc

Nearly all the keys worked for critical use, and the one that didn’t (left Command key) reliably worked when pressed in the center or top or right, or harder. From the get-go it felt and sounded a little different, but not enough to be a problem.

Notwithstanding the reputation of many writers being keyboard-fussy, i myself am not particularly critical. This keyboard is passable for a casual user. Best decision i could have made, for an aftermarket keyboard: i’m on my third (sort of. I chose to pay a little more to iFixIt for their 161-121-1 (sometimes written 161121-1) MacBook Pro 15' Unibody (Mid 2009-Mid 2012) Keyboard, both because i prefer supporting iFixIt and because of their lifetime warranty. Seems to me from my intense shopping at that time that there is only one choice, sold by different entities. No matter which seller, looking very closely at the photos, all the keyboards looked identical. seems to be making the only Unibody MacBook Pro aftermarket keyboard that i could find in summer 2020. There’s no pluralizing S missing from the last word of that heading: one factory in China Inc. I am highly disappointed i chose that path. I am a writer typing to you from an aftermarket keyboard. If you’re a writer or gamer or any other form of heavy/intense keyboard user, aftermarket keyboards will disappoint you.

If you’re a casual keyboard user, you might be OK with an aftermarket keyboard. There’s likely a reason they didn’t/don’t sell replacement keyboards separately: too difficult a repair! How Keyboard-Dependent Are You? In a way maybe we should be thankful that Apple used screws to mount the keyboard rather than spot-welding or similar.

#Macbook pro mid 2010 keyboard replacement portable

If you’re going to add an external pointing device too, your portable Mac is now that much less portable. I tried that: extremely annoying reaching over the external keyboard to manipulate the trackpad. I did not list “Use an external keyboard”.

#Macbook pro mid 2010 keyboard replacement Pc

Give up on this difficult repair Apple ridiculousness: Get a good repairable PC portable and run Linux.

Be more sensible: move to a Different (fully working) Mac.

Aftermarket keyboard (lots more information on this below).

Used original Apple keyboard, either as a whole top case (Housing, Top Case with Keyboard, Backlit if one is being precise), or just the keyboard… likely removed from a dead unit’s top case by you.

There’s nothing out there in the aftermarket with the (relative) quality of an Apple original keyboard, and they don’t sell replacements. Most, but not all, points made apply equally to other Unibody MacBook Pro model years and/or screen sizes. This is the saga of establishing a fully-workable keyboard in my 15' Mid-2012 MacBook Pro Non-Retina (e.g. Don’t break that backlight (details below)-not a readily available aftermarket part! Yes, it is field repairable by mere mortals, though doing so requires infinite patience, fortitude, willingness to nearly entirely disassemble an otherwise-working computer all the way down and past main board removal, and shepherding 50-some approximately 1 x 2 mm screws holding the extremely flexible thin aluminum keyboard frame to the thick aluminum unibody chassis. Generally regarded as the last- so far (we hope)-user-upgradeable and somewhat repairable portable Macintosh computers, woe be upon you if you’re faced with a 2009-2012 Unibody MacBook Pro with a failed keyboard. & Cheap Chinese Aftermarket Replacement (sold as iFixIt 161-121-1 amongst many others)