My dvorak unibody Macbook, Wargames and Trips

Author: Jeroen Schaftenaar

19 Dec

After months of waiting I finally have a unibody Macbook I spend a huge amount of money on this baby and the next day I broke it trying to convert the keyboard layout to dvorak. The day after, super glue came to the rescue! And now I have a very unique dvorak unibody Macbook. This photo actually made me do the conversion. During the rearranging of the keys I cursed myself for doing it but now I am really happy with the result(it looks the same, only a slightly different layout).

Christmas is coming and I can have 5 days off taking only one day of leave. I think I’ll make a trip to Bangkok. My idea is to go there by AirAsia and come back over land. Even more trips are coming up. In the end of January I have another week off and I might make a trip to Bali(again), I am not entirely sure what to do… Any suggestions are welcome Also in the beginning of January I might go to China for a few days but I fear that will not go through since I had some difficulties getting a visa for this trip.

Last weekend we had a company trip and we went to play paintball. This is really exhausting but really lots of fun to do. Also a good opportunity to talk with some people I hardly spoke to.

Life here is still relaxing and without worry. In the morning I still wake up late, go to the office grabbing a delicious Roti Capati on the way as breakfast. When I come home it is often 11pm+ but this doesn’t bother me at this moment.

I gave away my pocket camera so don’t expect any photo’s of things I’ve done. But I’ll try to get a new camera and then I’ll snap some shots for you all

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4 Responses for "My dvorak unibody Macbook, Wargames and Trips"

Daniel Eckhart April 3rd, 2009 at 11:18 pm 1
Hi,
I know this post is pretty old but I’m considering upgrading to the unibody and I was hoping you might be able to tell me a bit more about the dvorak conversion you did.

Specifically, did yours break because of bad luck or do you basically have to break it to change it? I’ve read that the f & j keys attach a little differently, so they’re more or less married to their current locations. Oh, and is your keyboard the backlit one?
Thank you much in advance.
Jeroen Schaftenaar April 5th, 2009 at 6:56 am 2
Hi Daniel.

I had just didn’t take enough time for the conversion. Just take your time! I did it once more with the apple keyboard and that was not a problem at all. I am confident I’ll be able to do it again without breaking any keys. I used the method with the two screw drivers which I find is more safe. I broke the one key with the “pulling” method. If you are afraid of breaking anything I suggest you buy an apple keyboard and try it on that. The keys are turned 90 degrees but the mechanism is the same. My macbook is the backlit type.

Kind regards,

Jeroen Schaftenaar
Daniel Eckhart April 6th, 2009 at 3:59 pm 3
Jason,

Hey, thanks for the reply. I pulled the trigger day before yesterday, turned it on for about five minutes and then pried all the keys off. Ha! What a gas.

Thanks for your help.
Sean McQuillan September 5th, 2009 at 7:56 am 4
A note, unibody macbooks with light keyboard have identically mounted f and j keys. On previous keyboards (notably Macbooks) f and j keys were mounted differently.

On the unibody, I was able to move all keys successfully, however it required a bit more work than previous keyboards because the plastic lifts had to be mounted separately with this version.

Hope this helps,
Sean