Macbook Pro Keyboard Fault Repair

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Nate001

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#311720 9-Feb-2024 12:48

Hey all. We have a 2017 Macbook Pro w/Touchbar, keyboard suddenly stopped working, no response and no backlight. Trackbar and touchbar are fine. A lot of googling has not returned anything insightful.

Anyone experiences or rough estimates of getting something like this repaired? Would rather avoid a new machine, but may have to if repair costs are uneconomical.

Thanks

mentalinc

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#3192863 9-Feb-2024 13:06

FYI - https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/27/23740087/apple-macbook-butterfly-keyboard-settlement-final-approval

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Nate001

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#3192866 9-Feb-2024 13:10

mentalinc:

FYI - https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/27/23740087/apple-macbook-butterfly-keyboard-settlement-final-approval

Thanks. I saw that and was not sure if applicable since our keyboard is 100% dead rather than the odd sticky or dead key. Maybe its worth a try...

CYaBro

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#3192891 9-Feb-2024 15:02

Yea that was for the individual keys themselves, not a failure of the whole keyboard.

It does mean that the whole top case has to be replaced and that's a big job on those MacBooks since everything has to come out, screen removed etc and put back into the replacement.
The keyboards aren't replaceable by themselves, at least that's not how Apple made us do it at my AASP. 🤪

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