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Old December 15th, 2008, 10:45 AM
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Some Keys Not Working on Laptop Keyboard

Randomly one day me "return", "p" key and my "-" and other ones don't work. And nothing happened to the laptop, no water, no dropping. Just one say it happend.
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Old December 15th, 2008, 12:10 PM
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Any junk under the keys? Do they feel the same to press down or is there any resistance?
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Old December 16th, 2008, 08:14 PM
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I can't feel any difference. If I press down on the multiple times, they start to work and then after maybe about 10 uses of that letter it stops again and with all of them.
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Under warranty? You need a new keyboard.
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Old December 20th, 2008, 11:50 PM
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No, it went out of warranty September. The weird thing is, eventually after pressing the key down more than once to get it to work, the rest of the keys work and then stop working all together.
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we are having the exact same problem with our macbook.. every time we use the laptop, at some point the p key, along with the enter key and few other keys around them stop working. After a while, they will start working again.

how long is the warrenty on macbooks? we purchased it a year or 2 ago.
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The warranty is for one year, unless you purchased AppleCare, which I believe extends it to 2 years.
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Again, replace your keyboard.
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