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That's exactly what happened to my son's 33S (CNA 411). Too bad this happened one month after the one-year warranty had expired...
(Very moderate use during two high-school semesters, mostly in Physics classes).
Yes, that's the same decimal point key. But I remember having seen loose '1' and '2' keys in someone else's 49G+. Does Benford's Law also apply to (old) Kinpo keyboards? :-)
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I bought one 33s that had a loose, badly clicking, malfunctioning y^x key right out of the box, very annoying. The rest of the keys worked quite well, felt good. But one bad key ruined the machine, though.
I still can't get used to the cowcatcher keyboard. Oh for HP to produce a decent little scientific.
The prices of HP15c on eBay are crazy, that alone ought to convince HP that some sort of revival of that machine could be profitable.
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It happened to my first HP-33S (SN 5XXX), which had a trouble with the 0 key (it worked only if pressed towards the upper right corner); figure it out!.
I called up the local HP service retailer, and an expert guy told me to rattle the key (holding it between two fingernails) in the right-left direction for a couple of days (of course for a couple of minutes in when I noticed the trouble!), in order to see if the pad under the key would set up; but after a whole week with no improvements, I returned it back, and I received in its place a brand new model (this one is quite perfect, only the ex key doesn't work if pressed toward the lower right corner, but I can live with it).
-- Antonio
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I just got off the phone with HP and they are going to send me a replacement.
While I was talking to the rep I asked if he knew if they were working on a replacement for the 33s. Unfortunatley, he said not to his knowledge, especially since HP just released a few new models. He said it was his guess that the 33s will be around for at least another year. I didn't think he would be able to say one way or another, but I figured I would ask the question anyway.
Here's hoping that in the future we will see a successor to the 33s. I could even live with an evolutionary upgrade that eliminated the v shaped keyboard and returned to traditional HP colors. And while we're at it how about better reliability, and let's not have a repeat of the invisible decimal point fiasco.