-xl.jpg "the new macbook pro keyboard is ruining my life")
The screws are more visible in this closeup. I'm not sure how that happens, but here's some proof. Those loose hairs floating around your house? Some of them end up somehow buried inside your laptop. Take a moment to look in awe at the beauty of this creation.Īnd then start cursing as you spend the next hour removing screws. There are over fifty TINY screws holding this down. The ribbon cables for keyboard and mouse are both attached, so be careful about them.Īfter removing the backlight you see this. Simply start in one corner lifting up the plastic, then proceed all the way around. It is held in place using some glue, and it is fairly easy to remove. The backlight is three layers of different plastics, and a light emitting something-or-other. There is a teensy ribbon cable that powers the backlight, which connects to the logic board. The black thing that looks like a sheet of plastic is the keyboard backlight. There is also a bar running from top to bottom that seems to serve primarily as the anchor point for both optical drive and logic board. In this picture I've already removed the logic board, and am about to remove the optical drive. In the Unibody MacBook Pro design, the keyboard is behind both the logic board and the optical drive. To get at the keyboard we have to strip off almost every part. And on iFixit I found a replacement keyboard for only $19.99, which is a very reasonable price. That video sure helped with alluding my fears.
It was recommended I watch this video about replacing a MacBook Pro 15" keyboard: The process looked very daunting, and in any case I'd not had a reason yet to swap a keyboard. While I have torn down several Unibody MacBook Pro's and replaced almost every part, I had not swapped the keyboard before. This meant the power button did not work, and even if I was able to boot the computer I could not type anything using the built-in keyboard. In other parts it was determined the keyboard was bad.
#The new macbook pro keyboard is ruining my life series#
This is part of a series of posts about refurbishing a 2010 "for parts or repair" MacBook Pro.
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