Comments on: Leopard: Great eye candy, pity the keyboard doesn’t always work.

By: Sasho

Sasho — Sun, 23 May 2010 07:38:10 +0000

Hi,

I have a brand new MacBook Pro i5 with Snow Leopard!

I have the same problem – both my keyboard and mouse stop responding for a while every now and then. Also sometimes they don’t come back at all…so I have to reboot/shut down to fix it, only to get it back.

I am not sure but I have the feeling I am getting this since I have installed some crappy drivers for Omnikey cardman 6121 – This is a smartcard reader for my electronic signature…

I also installed a bunch of other software, so I am not sure whether this from it or comes ‘naturally’ with the MacBook.

Now that I read all these comments I think it is not from the software I installed but rather a feature of Mac! – I am very disappointed with that!

By: Robert

Robert — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:52:35 +0000

I am having the same problem since today. And I am in the middle of northern Thailand and had to buy a fucking USB Thai keyboard. This is helping right now…. but sucks a lot!

Regards,

Robert

By: SF

SF — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 04:20:21 +0000

Hey,
I just got a MacBook Pro about a week ago, and yesterday the whole keyboard stopped working except for the arrow keys and Function keys.
I bought it so I can use it at work and home, but now I have to lug around a big USB keyboard. I don’t know if some setting is turned on or off, but windows is really lookin good right now

By: alban

alban — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 20:48:23 +0000

I have a G5 powermac the keyboard and or mouse randomly lock and the whole machine crashes if I plug the keyboard or mouse into my Formac monitor.
Also the finder hangs and the mac crashes when I copy files to or from my Lacie USB Disk.
It also asks if I really want to shut down down sometimes – just as if I have selected the sleep option.
All these things especially the crash logs point at USB problems.

My Mac even crashed while installing leopard the first time.
It really does my head in that Apple can not write a reliable USB driver for the hardware that they designed themselves.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 00:25:52 +0000

Hey,
Own a macbook pro. Have the same problem except I lose both the keyboard and mouse. Sweet! Usually a reboot will let me use it again but now every time I reboot neither of them will work. Every time I lose my keyboard and mouse the bluetooth wireless mouse finder pops up looking for a mouse. It doesn’t find one because I don’t have one. Maybe I should get one. Maybe this is Apple’s way of pushing their bluetooth mouse on people (I know it isn’t but it would be funny to think).

What is funny though is that i’m using my macbook right now… Thankfully I installed windows xp on it. Thank you boot camp.

By: Aral

Aral — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 08:58:27 +0000

Hi Andy,

The Mac is a wonderful computing platform. Please don’t let this post put you off of getting one. It’s not perfect (but what is?) Apple has its share of hardware issues and I don’t believe that Leopard is up to Tiger’s standards but it is getting better all the time. My personal experience after moving to a Mac has been great. I can’t see myself going back to Windows unless it’s re-written properly from the ground up :)

By: Andy

Andy — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:01:38 +0000

I’ve been on the fence on whether or not to switch to a mac or not. I love my Iphone, but it would be really hard to give up all the great free software that the windows platform has to offer… hmmm, what to do what to do :S

By: Hani

Hani — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 20:49:32 +0000

I bought my MacBook Pro as soon as Leopard was released (end of November). And now
I’m already starting to regret buying my MacBook Pro. I had problems with Leopard and the “b” key on the keyboard is intermittently not working or I have to push really hard for it to work.

I should have bought the EEE PC which costs only about $400!

By: Anny

Anny — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 14:52:46 +0000

dude, i feel yo, man, i have a MB, and the crap only works if you take the battery out after every typed letter, and by the time i finished this comment, my bottom art of the laptops all scratched up with fucking coin marks, jeez…my god, but hey…i think i spotted the problem
if you go under the library, enable hidden files and look under the y system files, you cansee the input generator thingy…you open the RTF file which is hdden, and it has this whole iput shit, well, its liek the debug thingy, there is this gay ass boolean, loads of binar crap, but at the brackets, you can see the x data files, change the 0 to 1, should work bro….

By: DD

DD — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:23:40 +0000

Hi,
I did an upgrade install and my keyboard is locked. Tried rebooting a number of times, reinstalling Leopard and booting from the Leopard DVD, no luck!

Various forums say Apple has released a patch. But if I cant log in…!!

Is there any way I can avoid losing all my data (with a Tiger reinstall)??

Thanks