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Freezing Keyboard on Mac Book Pro

Shortly after getting the new laptop, which came with 10.4 installed, I did an erase and install of 10.5. Shortly after doing this, I noticed the keyboard started freezing, while the touchpad and button worked just fine. “Oh no”, I thought, this is where I come to regret getting the refurb. But a little digging around found an article at MacFixIt.com. One of the posters suggested the following command:

sudo update_prebinding -force -root /

If you have this issue, copy and paste this into a Terminal window and hit return. Wait for the command to complete (you’ll get a prompt back) and reboot. This fixed the problem for me. I see the same issue is mentioned at AppleInsider but they say that no fix has been found. Perhaps I was lucky.

The most in-depth review of Leopard

Ars Technica has John Siracusa’s review of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. It’s amazing thorough and well worth the time it takes to read all 16 pages.

A guided tour of Leopard

Apple have just released a guided tour of the new operating system that’s due to ship on the 26th.

Leopard is announced!

If you’ve been wondering when Apple would ship Leopard, wonder no more. They’ve announced today that it will ship on October 26th and you can order it here to get it delivered free on that day.

In addition - if you bought a new Macintosh on or after October 1, you are eligible to get Leopard for $9.99. Visit this page to find out the details.

Leopard is coming.

It looks like the latest rumors are that Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5) will be released on or around October 26. If you’ve been thinking of purchasing products like Mac OS X Server Maintenance you will want to do so before the shipping date is officially announced.