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1. no experience with macbooks, but for other laptops (windows),

Reply to TexasProgresive (Original post)

Tue Mar 26, 2019, 06:51 AM

Mar 2019

i have had this problem many times. it means one of two things:

1) there is a static charge on the touchpad/keyboard, in which case grounding the laptop and rebooting will usually fix the problem or

2) the touchpad/keyboard is fried and needs replacing. it's actually cheap and not hard to do this.

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MacBook glitch when typing [View all] TexasProgresive Mar 2019 OP

no experience with macbooks, but for other laptops (windows), unblock Mar 2019 #1

My HP probook does that, too. And sometimes the curser disappears while typing text ... marble falls Mar 2019 #2

sticky keyboard .. or.. your word processor ? Tetrachloride Mar 2019 #3

control-a? CloudWatcher Mar 2019 #4

I think that must be it. TexasProgresive Mar 2019 #5

news Tetrachloride Mar 2019 #6