Hello,
I have a mid-2014 13" MBA and since August last year I have an inconvenient issue with the integrated keyboard.
The keys from 1 to 9 (red on the picture below) do not respond unless I press hard on a very particular spot close to the trackpad (circled in green) while hitting the keys.
I only came across this trick recently, as I first suspected a software issue (resets did nothing to solve it).
I also checked the scissors and squishy things beneath the keys but they all looked ok.
No shock, no liquid spill incident to report.
The only clue I have is that it started at a time I was traveling with my macbook in a bagpack — though it was always turned off while moving, protected with a hard case, in a sleeve and in the notebook pocket so it doesn't move about. Maybe it's not that good to overprotect your children..
I looked for similar cases online but mostly found easily solved software issues or unsolved hardware.
I might resign myself to bring it to a repair shop and replace the whole keyboard (there is no official Apple Store where I live, and this is what they suggested after a payed diagnosis) but I would like to be sure there is no other way to solve it (myself, ideally) as everything except those nine keys works perfectly.
Thank you!
I have a mid-2014 13" MBA and since August last year I have an inconvenient issue with the integrated keyboard.
The keys from 1 to 9 (red on the picture below) do not respond unless I press hard on a very particular spot close to the trackpad (circled in green) while hitting the keys.
I only came across this trick recently, as I first suspected a software issue (resets did nothing to solve it).
I also checked the scissors and squishy things beneath the keys but they all looked ok.
No shock, no liquid spill incident to report.
The only clue I have is that it started at a time I was traveling with my macbook in a bagpack — though it was always turned off while moving, protected with a hard case, in a sleeve and in the notebook pocket so it doesn't move about. Maybe it's not that good to overprotect your children..
I looked for similar cases online but mostly found easily solved software issues or unsolved hardware.
I might resign myself to bring it to a repair shop and replace the whole keyboard (there is no official Apple Store where I live, and this is what they suggested after a payed diagnosis) but I would like to be sure there is no other way to solve it (myself, ideally) as everything except those nine keys works perfectly.
Thank you!