Macbook keyboard bug is never going to be fixed...

Nope. After all the updates, even a firmware update of the keyboard, no fix to this bug.

My guess is that Apple is cheaping out somewhere in one of the components related to the keyboard, and this is literally an unfixable hardware issue.

Anyone else still having this issue? (First key stroke after idle/restart/sleep/period of inactivity ignored). Santa Rosa Black Macbook here.

 

doesn't happen to me :/

it sort of lags when i type in my password coming out of sleep mode, but the lagged keystrokes are still remembered and come out fine.

 

Same here. But what happens is after I type in my password from sleep (no problems here), I start browsing the internet/Itunes and am not using the keyboard for maybe 5-10 minutes. The first second I try to type a website into the bar: instead of "slickdeals.net", it would be "lickdeals.net". This has happened every single day just about, on different websites and whatnot, in Safari and Firefox, so I KNOW this is a bug.

 

I just traded up my Santa Rosa Macbook for the Penryn Macbook. (It was within the 14 days ). I have not noticed any keyboard anomalies. What's the big deal with one keystroke being lost? Is your password getting munged after every boot? If not, why would you care? Apple software is good, but after a few unexpected quits and even a kernel panic on one of my kids' machines I realize that it isn't perfect. I just don't see how I could get excited about one keystroke in light of the thousands of keystrokes I enter every day. I guess it would bother me more if it was present every time the machine came out of sleep. Do you have something set to run at login that consumes keystrokes but doesn't put them back on the stream?

 

This is a well documented issue, but the point is, with any sort of idle keyboard time without activity, it seems that keyboard goes to sleep and wakes up with the first keystroke, thus ignoring it and continuing with the second.
Is it a big deal? Not nearly as bad as constant kernel panics that I used to get with an older white GMA950 Macbook (which was related to the Airport), but still annoying, especially so because Apple has supposedly released a "firmware update" to the keyboard to fix this, and it didn't do anything.

 

I haven't had this issue happen to me for a long time... thought the firmware update fixed it. All I know is it used to happen occasionally, but not anymore. Except in MSN:mac, but that's just because MSN:mac is a POS lol.