03.08
This keyboard double strike problem has been ongoing, and after a quick Internet search, I found a suggestion to enable the “Slow Keys” feature in the Universal Access preferences, and to set the slider just left of the “short” setting. After doing this, I launched TextEdit and started typing, and the system immediately froze. 100% locked up.
Power off/Power on.
Try again. Same thing. Recycle power again. Try turning off the key click sound. Freeze/Recycle power. Move the slider a little further left of short – and suddendly it worked.
Ok – fine – so it seems to have solved the double strike problem, but now it’s dropping characters. It happened 3 times while typing this message, so I’ve had to turn the Slow Keys setting off. Time to request a new keyboard.
Update: I tried the keyboard that I ordered for my father-in-law’s Mini, and it did NOT solve the problem, so I’ve concluded that these Apple keyboards are crap and I’ve started looking elsewhere. In the process, I discovered that I’m not the only one with double character problems, and that many others long for the days of the old Apple keyboards which apparently were much better.
The best replacement keyboard seems to be the Matias Tactile Pro (http://matias.ca/tactilepro/), but it’s not cheap: retails for $99! I’m probably going to order one, but not just yet (have to wait until the 14th when my credit card billing cycle begins again.
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