[P1] iBook Keyboard Marking The Screen

mark ray aardvarkart3 at earthlink.net
Wed Apr 21 20:53:01 PDT 2004


This happens to pretty much all white iBooks and TiBooks. If you do a 
search and you will see many after-market products ranging in price 
from $10 to $25. I just cut a piece of felt, placed between keyboard 
and screen which works like a charm for me.

Regards,
Mark


On Wednesday, April 21, 2004, at 08:06 PM, Tom wrote:

> I just bought a G3 900 MHz iBook and I¹m still within the warranty 
> period.
> The problem is that the keyboard is marking up the screen. It leaves 
> little
> scratches where the keyboard touches the screen when it¹s closed. I¹ve
> double checked to be sure that the keyboard is properly seated and 
> that the
> airport card underneath is seated correctly and not raising the 
> keyboard.
>
> Has anyone else had this problem? Are these key marks on the screen 
> normal
> or typical? I can¹t help but think they will get worse the more I use 
> the
> iBook. Should I try to get this fixed before the warranty is up?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tom Margrave
>
>
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