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Typo on Macbook Keyboard?

img120.imageshack.us — I just noticed this on my replacement keyboard - Apple made a typo while making their keyboards? :o

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danielgilbert 1 year 241 days ago, made popular 1 year 241 days ago

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jpicune, on 10/12/2007, -243/+36Interesting!
- treseks, on 10/12/2007, -23/+247No... what's interesting is that, the title of this post has a question mark. The author is obviously uncertain if it actually is a typo.
- dj_sea2005, on 10/12/2007, -5/+461I )think) i have the same problem
- elmasri, on 10/12/2007, -84/+19ok, what exactly is interesting? I dont get it, what is the problem?
  
  Oh man, that took am a while to find
  the 9's '(' is actually a ')'
- D3koy, on 10/12/2007, -93/+7Does it make a (, or does it make a ( because if it made the shape it was supposed to make, i don't see what all the fuss is about
- rhizome, on 10/12/2007, -60/+10This pic was totally not photoshopped
- clos, on 10/12/2007, -35/+66@D3koy
  
  The big fuss is that this guy paid a lot of money for his new computer and his keyboard isn't even printed right.
- elmasri, on 10/12/2007, -9/+109Ok, stop digging down people who don't get what the problem is. Yes in hindsight it's obvious but initially one might start looking at different buttons.
  and here you have it, if you came to read the comments not knowing what was wrong: The 9 key's '(' is actually a ')'
- wallakoala, on 10/12/2007, -9/+276just to spice things up, I went into gimp and in about a minute and a half I made this:
  
  http://img508.imageshack.us/img508/9994/p1020317ks5so5.jpg
  
  I am not saying the picture posted is photoshopped, but i just think that there is a possibility it was.
- IMustBeEmo, on 10/12/2007, -27/+13Apple made a typo... while making a keyboard.
  
  Another god damned wormhole!
- thomashallock, on 10/12/2007, -23/+87@wallakoala don't you mean "Gimped"?
- anchorman, on 10/12/2007, -18/+5Edited - Someone already made my comment. Just removing the echo.
- Nachoo, on 10/12/2007, -100/+18In Soviet Russia, you did not type typos with your keyboard, the keyboard was typed with typos.
- limon, on 10/12/2007, -12/+75The guy just got a Latin American key.
  
  A Latin American notebook keyboard: http://www.powerbrixx.com/images/watermark/2k5531.jpg
  
  (That's what you get when you separate the keys: The guys in the depot need to keep track of many more things and inevitably make mistakes)
- Nachoo, on 10/12/2007, -73/+10I cannot believe you digg my Soviet Russia joke down. It was witty and everything... Why? Social-Community.. Why?
- f3l1x, on 10/12/2007, -10/+67You got dugg down for two reasons.
  One. It doesn't follow the standard Russian reversal hilarity
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_reversal
  
  and two.. well Peter Griffin said it best.
  "In a second-season Family Guy episode entitled "There's Something About Paulie", Peter Griffin plays around with his new car's navigation system and turns it to “Yakov Smirnoff Mode”. The navigation system says, “In Soviet Russia, car drives you!” Later in that episode, it says, “Turn right at fork in road. In Soviet Russia, road forks you!” (at which Peter Griffin remarks, “Boy, is that getting old.”)"
  
  And the bonus 3rd thing.. its more of a slashdot thing. so saying it here is just sloppy seconds.
- Daiken, on 10/12/2007, -11/+6Considering stuff like this is mass produced and there haven't been many other reports of this, I think it's pretty obvious the picture was photoshopped.
- simonwright, on 10/12/2007, -14/+21OMG, my keyboard has the same problem!
  --> http://wpool.com/simon/keyboard.jpg
- hackmaster, on 10/12/2007, -9/+20@simonwright: totally off topic, your picture is very nicely taken. very good focus and everything. It even could work as a wallpaper.
- despisedIcon, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2its simon wright the nazi mod
- nickerbocker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6@wallakoala
  
  Are you saying someone is creating something just to put it on Digg? SAY IT ISN'T SO!!
- drmonkey, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5@wallakoala
  
  http://img147.imageshack.us/img147/7528/diggpsplaybq0.jpg
  
  Not saying the image wasn’t photo hopped but I had a play with the colour levels of your version and the Digg one and while your one can bee seen to be edited (larger group size of the same pixel colour near the photoshopped area and the shadow pointing the wrong direction) , the Digg one is a little less obvious (it's not a direct cut and paste as the shapes are different and the area around it doesn’t look edited).
  
  But this is just me playing around, anyone know other ways of looking for photoshopping?
- deohieu, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3:-)
  
  No, Apple, I mean it's sad.
  
  All right. :-9
- bluesdealer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"Does it make a (, or does it make a ( because if it made the shape it was supposed to make, i don't see what all the fuss is about"
  
  It's not a bug, it's a feature!
- jrbrewin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1apple can't do international keyboards anyway. English-UK keyboard? forget it.. you'll use US keyboard layout, and be happy with it.
danielgilbert, on 10/12/2007, -35/+618Maybe... it's Apple's drive to make the world a happier place?

:) rather than :(
- SniperX, on 10/12/2007, -65/+581Apple does it.. they're making the world a happier place.
  Microsoft does it.. they're freaking morons.
- newanon, on 10/12/2007, -56/+20well you could always do this ): instead of :)
- aplardi, on 10/12/2007, -42/+13): --- or trying to make people ambidextrous in the field of emoticons
  
  i love my mac
- sunamiebob, on 10/12/2007, -26/+2haha aww yes
- BioCS.Nerd, on 10/12/2007, -71/+6@sniperx, he's joking, you idiot.
- Benjamin2040, on 10/12/2007, -43/+12"Apple does it.. they're making the world a happier place.
  Microsoft does it.. they're freaking morons."
  
  Yes.
- RobotGigante, on 10/12/2007, -14/+2@newanon
  
  A smiling mouth above the eyes doesn't make any sense :P
- drathosX3, on 10/12/2007, -15/+4...maybe it's for the upside down face kid off Family Guy?
- kraice, on 10/12/2007, -12/+2
  DanielGilbert
  Maybe... it's Apple's drive to make the world a happier place?
  
  :) rather than :(
  
  LOL I like it... Ban all sad faces!!!
- hackmiester, on 10/12/2007, -27/+13This thread wins the "longest string of consecutive buried comments" award.
- jsetoh, on 10/12/2007, -14/+3hackmiester,
  i agree with you..
  come on digg me down lets keep the record going
- Batiu-Drami, on 10/12/2007, -16/+13hackmiester: No it doesn't.
  http://digg.com/videos_comedy/Bart_Simpson_s_Heart_Attack
- ZrO-1, on 10/12/2007, -7/+15Quote:
  "Maybe... it's Apple's drive to make the world a happier place?
  
  :) rather than :("
  
  I dug this article just because that was the funniest comment anyone could have come up with in reference to this. That is awesome.
- painextremus, on 10/23/2007, -3/+11So close, Apple, but no cigar for you. ):
- Agret, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6@Batiu-Drami
  Holy ***** that's a lot of dugg down comments, firefox has been chugging its way through rendering the page for the last 5 minutes now.
- rbanffy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Is that my impression or the MS fanboys invaded digg en masse?
  
  Microsoft's last attempt to make the world a happy place was Bob. They are sadly unqualified to such an effort.
- nickerbocker, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3@Batiu-Drami
  
  I remember that glorious day. I was dugg down in 30 seconds. No one knew what was going on.
- JimboXp, on 10/12/2007, -10/+0God Damn Mac people are dumb.
danielgilbert, on 10/12/2007, -4/+44The key itself works fine - it's just weird :p
- zigziggityzoo, on 10/12/2007, -10/+3Duh?
  
  If it didn't work fine, then you'd have a story. It doesn't matter what's printed on top of the key. That's why things like foreign language support work.
Pacotheparrot, on 10/12/2007, -24/+4Just found the typo woot!
krolls, on 10/12/2007, -20/+4I dont have my macbook with me, am I missing an obvious typo?
danielgilbert, on 10/12/2007, -7/+28I have two ) keys
- TheCount, on 10/12/2007, -26/+119No, you obviously simply can't read. Apple doesn't make mistakes!
- crispytown, on 10/12/2007, -7/+64So you are saying it was a secret Microsoft employee that hide inside the Mac Dev center and changed the key.
- titlesaysitall, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5It looks like you're trying to sabotage a shipment.
- EricJD, on 10/12/2007, -13/+6@ TheCount
  
  If Apple doesn't make mistakes, why did he need a replacement keyboard in the first place?
- UrlorJkron, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2user error?
relientkkid07, on 10/12/2007, -16/+0I have the same typo on mine. Looking at it, it might have something to do with number lock. Just a thought, because it works if you type fn you get a equal sign.
relientkkid07, on 10/12/2007, -16/+0Sorry my mistake I completely saw they wrong thing.
ulyssesyt, on 10/12/2007, -44/+7nice use of Photoshop. this wouldn't make it past production and QA, for a variety of reasons.
- npowel, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Or just for one... it has the wrong character.
- danielgilbert, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Well, that's what I would have thought (about the QA that is), but I assure you it's not photoshopped.
- nipterink, on 10/12/2007, -0/+143@danielgilbert: remove the key and take a picture of a squirrel holding it in front of the tv guide channel.
- danielgilbert, on 10/12/2007, -10/+6No, because despite its fatal flaw, I still love my Macbook :p
- awhiteflame, on 10/12/2007, -29/+12Just to see what it would take to gimp/photoshop that, I copied the 9 over the 0 and I didn't have to do any color retouching, just had to use clone.
  
  http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/3998/kbiv3.jpg
  
  Seeing as how easy it would be to photoshop it, im calling this a fake until we see multiple angles.
- danielgilbert, on 10/12/2007, -2/+104http://img158.imageshack.us/img158/8344/p1020318ga1.jpg
- awhiteflame, on 10/12/2007, -0/+31I stand corrected. ^_^
- KlayBorg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Zing!
- eridius, on 10/12/2007, -29/+6Oh come on, multiple angles don't disprove photoshop. I can't imagine a picture you could take that would prove it's not photoshopped.
  
  So either you photoshopped it, or apple actually sent out a keyboard with a typo. To me, the more plausible explanation is you photoshopped it, but on the other hand I like to believe the best about people, which would lead me to say you're telling the truth and it was a manufacturing problem.
  
  There's basically no way to prove it one way or the other.
- ozid, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15he did a flawless photoshop with perfect bluring in 4 minutes?
  
  oh and I've seen the problem in person. a buddy of mine got a replacement keyboard on his macbook at the end of last month and its backwards, too.
- Reziarfg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14Make a movie of it.
- Pests, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9eridius:
  
  How about a video? Live streaming even?
  
  Thats one way to prove it.
- dj_sea2005, on 10/12/2007, -2/+26damn... "Pics or it didn't happen" apparently isn't enough for you people.
- wto605, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7not only the 4 minute argument... but look at the focal length... the 0 key is slightly out of focus while the 9 key and beyond is in focus, shadows are different too... now to do all that in 4 minutes is impossible
- synystar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I don't believe this is photoshopped but you don't have to "do all that in 4 minutes" ... why would he have to accomplis perfect blurring , change the focus, alter shadows etc. All he has to do is change a few pixels at the location of the character. The camera did the rest.
bontaq, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9Oh the madness?
GDunck, on 10/12/2007, -101/+24Apple ***** sucks, go Microsoft!
- satanscool, on 10/12/2007, -34/+11Your almost worth hating :)
- Tiak, on 10/12/2007, -4/+35Wow... A user had bled through the dimensions from bizarro-digg... This is the beginning of the end of days!
- magical1492, on 10/12/2007, -6/+10Quick, Apple people, digg him down!
- vrogy, on 10/12/2007, -15/+6>>))MICRO$OFT BLOWS!((>))MAC RULES!((
- hackmiester, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1magical: done :)
satanscool, on 10/12/2007, -2/+50That was fun, Kinda like Wheres Waldo.
rocko213, on 11/05/2007, -10/+181Looks like somebody found the inevitable worm inside the Apple

(god I've been waiting forever for Apple to make a mistake so I could FINALLY use that metaphor)
- Benjamin2040, on 10/12/2007, -6/+26bravo sir. bravo =)
morgrar, on 10/12/2007, -5/+15o_O
Akadjjoel, on 10/12/2007, -14/+2Isnt that the forward slash on the number pad? Doi!
Nickatnite101, on 10/12/2007, -6/+84Looks like you got a bad apple...
- iMoth, on 10/12/2007, -9/+94let's take a ride in my ROFLcopter.
- steven401, on 10/12/2007, -5/+71Or borrow a pair of my LOLERskates.
- consonance, on 10/12/2007, -3/+54Or take a ride in my LOLs Royce.
- Xplorer, on 10/12/2007, -6/+32Freakin LOLocaust up in here.....
- lokon, on 10/12/2007, -10/+24anyone have any lmaonaise for my sandwich?
- dyzlexiK, on 10/12/2007, -25/+8Shut up before I pull out my AFK-47.
- Clark3934, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16Those comments made me spit out my LMAOnade.
- nreynolds, on 10/12/2007, -6/+10I like raisins.
- hackmiester, on 10/12/2007, -0/+12I'm tired of this *****, I should steamlol all of you into the ground...
- PicklePower, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5MAKE IT STOP
- strabes, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1HAHHAHAHA wow I'm laughing so much at all these comments.
- newtype78, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7That's it. I'm moving to AFKanistan.
xs3p, on 10/12/2007, -12/+5I bet that is worth a chunk of change, kinda like a misprint baseball card or coin.
- Vironex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Computer nerds are usually perfectionists, not obsessive in the same way as sports nuts.
jake57, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Every MacBook owner checked to see if they had this, fearing the worst. Mine doesn't have it.
Autrix, on 10/12/2007, -10/+9No more sad emoticons for you mac users!!
- Cleanlyness, on 10/12/2007, -12/+5??? nube it's been said, stop stealing jokes and proved false
  
  ):
- ckirsch, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11We don't need them :)
- Anamith, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5What about putting your colon on the other side of your mouth?
  
  :) ):
- Vironex, on 10/12/2007, -0/+31"What about putting your colon on the other side of your mouth?"
  
  That certainly does draw up an interesting mental image.
- Mac2492, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5That idea is difficult to digest...
stinkypyper, on 10/12/2007, -1/+59Jobs is gonna have the person responsible executed.
iMoth, on 10/12/2007, -6/+47my keyboard has a windows key.* :O

*not really.
- superduper, on 10/12/2007, -11/+0wow... i'm sorry guys... i'm really sorry that i lost my cool. i'm sorry that everyone thought i was serious when i asked this guy to suck himself off. really i'm sorry. i should chill out. maybe, i'll buy a dell. that would be good. cause dell's are awesome. i love how volatile these things get. i was just pushin buttons....
  
  and to answer everyone's question... it would benefit humanity if he sucked himself off... because honestly i would do it too if i could. wouldn't you? i mean... i dont know if i'd swallow... but i would totally do it... you use your hand anyways.
superduper, on 10/12/2007, -103/+0we dont need any... "apple ***** sucks" mr. go microsoft.... try something useful that would benefit humanity and try sucking yourself off, because apple is here and it will be here for awhile. a loooong while.

what idiot made that keyboard
- msodrew, on 10/12/2007, -1/+28Wow, you suck.
- inf4my, on 10/12/2007, -1/+28@superduper
  dude wtf is your problem no one even said anything....anger management
- bigbadgoat, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15umm... apple made that keyboard..
- tokyomonster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+40"try something useful that would benefit humanity and try sucking yourself off,"
  
  are you implying sucking yourself off would benefit humanity?
- KlayBorg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9So I have been helping! Awesome!
- victordavion, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3lol, he got defensive over a computer manufacturing brand!
- DeleteForever, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1[in the voice of Cartman's mother]
  
  Somebody hasn't been taking his Ritalin today.
- jsetoh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2chill it dude.. take a walk in the park.. pick some rotten apples.. maybe scream at them..
StephenCIreland, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I have a G3 USB Keyboard and the 3 key is printed upside down, it matches inline with the rest of the keys so the keys not upside down, just the printing
- dragoneye, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13The S key on an old NEC keyboard I have has the key printed upside down.
- ryMac, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1ummmmm. S kinda looks he same upside down dude. I think mines wrong too...
- kewlito, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3My keyboard has a Z and a 90 degree rotated Z...
  
  ... oh... wait
WiZZLa, on 10/12/2007, -5/+39Apple did it, so it's obviously a feature!
camuk19, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4It's positive thinking all around the Apple Labs.
robertcole, on 10/12/2007, -0/+120Looks like a spanish 9 key made it's way onto your keyboard.

For a spanish keymap, check here: http://www.forlang.wsu.edu/images/kspanish.gif
- MuscleAnimal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+15bravo for thinking!! thank you. seriously!! whew.
- Lumiras, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I think you hit it right on the head, there. That would be an easy mistake to make, really
- schildkroeter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Or for that matter just any European keyboard really... German one has it too!
- robertcole, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@schildkroeter:
  Could be, but in the US, the only keymap options are US English and Western Spanish.
wyngnut, on 10/12/2007, -2/+15Steve's gonna be pissed.
kerplunk, on 10/12/2007, -35/+5I'd like to see some other pictures of this. (From different angles.) Until then...

PHOTOSHOPPED.
- mfwit, on 10/12/2007, -22/+5i agree
- danielgilbert, on 10/12/2007, -3/+34http://img158.imageshack.us/img158/8344/p1020318ga1.jpg
- benitojuarez, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12HAH! He showed your ass.
- kerplunk, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8 danielgilbert: Thanks, I appreciate the second screenshot. :)
- mfwit, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4i stand corrected
- BobbyOnions, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5> I'd like to see some other pictures of this. (From different angles.) Until then...
  > PHOTOSHOPPED.
  
  Do you believe in any kind of god?
  
  Western civilisations - complete disbelief without absolute proof.
  Western religion - complete belief without any proof.
  
  What's so hard to believe here? A manufacturing process introduced a fault, that's all there is to it.
elv1s77, on 10/12/2007, -8/+9Is the laptop worth more now, like those baseball cards with misprints?
- StephenCIreland, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1hmmmm if the answer be yes then
  
  FOR SALE : G3 USB Keyboard With Upside Down 3 Key : $100
innerstate, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3hey...my macbook doesn't have that... :(
lukasmn, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0Weird!
elitexero, on 10/12/2007, -30/+3Oh no it's the end of the world. Who cares if they fix it or not.. wait everyone who uses a mac. Because we all know 90% of mac users are total computer noobs who just buy stuff based on the amount of popularity an item has.
- bigbadgoat, on 10/12/2007, -25/+2thats so ***** true it isn't even fit. Although I can't knock the iPod. Great piece of hardware.
- DigitalN, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16some of us using a mac don't buy it on popularity. Perhaps you have never used a mac, but it is the smoothest operation of a computer I've ever had. All if Apple's included apps are streamlined together and it makes everything run very seamless. It is much better than XP. Only reason I will ever go back to a PC is for gaming, that is it.
- jsetoh, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2hey elitexero
  u know why apple-hating comments are always dugg down?
  because Mac users are Digg users
Hegemony, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13eBay it a the limited edition "extra smiley" macbook :)
Lavarock, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5Of all places to make a typo.

That's like a book about speling.
bwishey, on 10/12/2007, -52/+1Not a very good Photoshop deal.
You can see the box from where it was selected...

Almost funny though! :p
- danielgilbert, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8http://img158.imageshack.us/img158/8344/p1020318ga1.jpg
- Chmarr, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Haha! That's great. The Original Poster has already shown the "alternate angle" several times, AND a decent rationale for the error (a 9 key from the spanish keyboard crept in), and YET you still make the "you can see the box" quote.
  
  You didn't actually LOOK, did you? You just spouted off your junk and expected a decent chunk of digg readership to take it hook line and sinker?
  
  Well, you'd probably be right ;)
GreySpec, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3Among the slew of emoticon comments, I think this problem is much bigger than a smiley face. How can Apple, who specializes in hardware, make a mistake of this colossal scale... Keep me posted diggers!
- wabbiteh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2see robertcole's comment -- might be a key from a spanish keyboard layout/other language layout.
- pauldonnelly, on 10/12/2007, -9/+2Apple specializes in making you use their hardware to run their OS -- not in making quality hardware. Apple puts out the worst keyboards and mice you're likely to find.
- wto605, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0@pauldonnelly
  
  except the mighty mouse, the ball scroller is sweet... its like trackball + mouse
  
  (would be nice if the buttons on the side were easier to push and separate w/different commands)
- zybch, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1The first thing I did was replace the ***** mac mouse/keyboard with good Microsoft USB ones when I got my first mac.
  They might look nice, but they toaly suck balls in every other way possible.
  I haven't tried any of the newer ones, but they sure used to suck donkey balls!
optikalblitz, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0!@#$%^&*))

you gotta wonder if someone's gonna get fired for this.

probably not.
- danielgilbert, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Don't make me feel guilty :p
eN1X, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Awesome
thealliedhacker, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Maybe it is a typo, but I'll bet you tried hitting it a few times, just to make sure ;)
lowercased, on 10/12/2007, -5/+0thats odd lol at first i thought it looked photoshopped but other people are finding them?
DollaBill, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1OMG you clearly got a fake one lol....
D3koy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15Picture or it didn't happ...well I'll be damned
SpiderOne, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Funny, just yesterday my girlfriend mentioned something similar with her Macbook. Instead of a ! over top of the 1 key she has a &. Which means she has a & over top of both 1 and 7. Shift + 1 still produces ! however.
- wto605, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Looks like the children in apple's sweatshop are cixelsyd...
  
  Hint of the last word: if you have it you can read it normally
Akaji, on 10/12/2007, -17/+1Fake.

Same idea as http://digg.com/apple/Proof_that_Apple_is_evil
- danielgilbert, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10http://img158.imageshack.us/img158/8344/p1020318ga1.jpg
  
  I assure you it's not fake - there's the second angle that everyone wanted...
- Akaji, on 10/12/2007, -13/+1Give me video and I'll believe you.
- Misogyny, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Sure, he sends you a video and you're like "FAKE, send me the computer and I'll believe you." Ass...
- Beaver6813, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@Akaji
  Are you stupid or what? I'm sorry but do you not view other peoples comments regarding the topic? So far the author has presented other photos of it, different angles and someone has proposed the theory that the spanish keyset somehow made its way onto this macbook.
  
  Grr.
- geezusfreeek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I honestly don't believe this is a fake. Yes, both angles posted could be Photoshopped, but the second one would be a bit more work (the depth of field blur, particularly), and since it was posted so quickly, the poster either had it preprepared or it probably isn't a fake.
- Tiak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The story you mentioned was based off of this one (pay attention to which was submitted first). Basicly, that one's a spoof....
Rabid_Llama, on 10/12/2007, -22/+1IT IS NOT A TYPO.

It's the number pad on the laptop. The number listed in the bottom right is what happens when you hit numlock. Look at the picture. It goes:

7-7 8-8 9-9
U-4 I-5 O-6

it's laid out like a number pad, i.e.
789
456
123
0

The slash (divide) on 0 is right above the * (multiply) on P.

I'm sad that it took this long to notice it (except for one digger up there, good work :) ).

Also, my G4 iBook has the exact same keyboard layout.
- BlindIrishman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Its referring to the 8* 9) 0)
  9 is (
- Ratty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I think you completely missed the typo.
- Rabid_Llama, on 10/12/2007, -10/+1Oh, sorry. Maybe if it were pointed out in the title of the story...
  
  I should have noticed from the comments what the problem was, I guess, but I'm so used to digg'ers being dense that I figured it as the "error" that had an explanation.
- oddurs, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2^ Who's talking about the number pad, Rabid_Llama? I could have sworn this had something to do with the ( ) keys.
- Rabid_Llama, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Yeah, I realize that now, but would it have been so hard to put a hint in the story?
- victordavion, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7Wow, I bet you're feeling quite embarrassed right about now.
- mikester540, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Wow, yeah you're a moron.
  
  I don't think an extra hint in the title would've helped you; You obviously can't read the comments anyway!
- kayakto, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1i looked at the pic and saw this double 8 and double 9... i thought "thats not a typo, what a lame posted it". but then i thought about all those 900 diggers who dugg it. and i read the comments.
- mrbobo34, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I would make fun of you, but "I'm so used to digg'ers being dense," so I'll let it slide this time.
- jsetoh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1you took so much effort to type so much.. u must be feeling hurt right now.. RLOLMAOF
- kewlito, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"I'm sad that it took this long to notice it (except for one digger up there, good work :) ). "
  
  PWNED ! (Sorry, my P key was replaced with an O key)
- nofxjunkee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's funny that so many people below the Llama here made the same comment as he.
weyhan, on 10/12/2007, -10/+0http://digg.com/apple/Proof_that_Apple_is_evil
rasbill, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1brain hurts
trauph, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Like bwishey, I immediately thought Photoshop since it would be so simple to copy a letter given the same background color etc. But, I think the Spanish explanation may hold up, albeit surprising. Both of the links from above would be very easy Photoshop jobs, but unless the OP was starved for attention I'd be surprised. Can anyone else post pics of this from their own macs?
scubascuba, on 10/12/2007, -1/+292 left paranthesis don't make a right
- ibeattetris, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0haha that was by far the best comment as of yet
thefutureisours, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12uhh where is it? i spent 30 mins looking at it but i can't figure it out!!
- Xplorer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8RTFC
  
  Seriously 30 mins.....
  
  If you are REALLY having problems wouldn't it make more sense to try skimming the comments before posting.
- ozid, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4dugg for hilariousness.
- mediaphile, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8it's a sailboat.
- Mac2492, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2)It's a secret)
- sctechguy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It's not a sailboat, it's a dinghy
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