I’ve been using my MacBook Pro at home with a Windows keyboard for a while now. It’s been OK, although slightly annoying that the Cmd and Alt keys are reversed (which you can switch over, but that also reverses them on the Apple keyboard I use at work…).
More recently I’ve had one irritating problem though, namely that the keyboard is intermittently generating additional characters with key-presses. For example, pressing space just now produced a space character and a letter ‘a’. Pressing it just then generated a ‘space’, followed by an ‘a’, followed by another ‘space’. Pressing the shift, option or arrow key has produced similar results (often a number ‘3’). It happens more often when entering key combinations, but only sometimes. And it’s not just modifier keys either. I got a handful of random characters when I hit ‘a’ a little while ago.
This is really annoying, since it makes my regular typo-habit seem so much worse. A little help?
Ben is a 24 year old Web Developer from Cambridge and is a computing graduate of the University of Manchester.