No matter which seller, looking very closely at the photos, all the keyboards looked identical.
Unibody mac mini power supply purchase pro#
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.
Unibody mac mini power supply purchase 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”.
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)