Yes, easily, if it's only the clamshell's keyboard that's bad. But if it's only some kind of ordinary beverage spill, the distilled water trick is likely to fix the original keyboard. On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, Paul Savard wrote: . . . > I just disconect it ...do you think that I could just plug an external > keyboard, so it could than be recognized by the IBook itself, as THE > keyboard of this machine? . . .