I have two Q950s, one of which came to me with a key and one without. The same key works in both, so I had assumed that the lock was the same in all of the Q950s.

Then last week I discovered a spare Q950 key (well, it looks just like the other one) in the bottom recesses of one of the many boxes of parts that came to me recently, but it does not work in either of the machines. It goes in the locks, yes, but it does not turn. So, evidently not all the Q950 locks were alike.

I plan to get the key re-cut or else to get the lock changed so as to fit the other key. I have a disabled-but-savant friend from my childhood neighbourhood who is mentally a bit delayed but who is an absolute whiz at this stuff, so I try to give him lock-related jobs to do in order to be able to put a few dollars his way. He needs the money more than me.

Before I commit to his re-cutting the key, however, or to getting the lock tumblers changed, assuming there are tumblers in there, am I right that, with the exception of the DuoDocks, there is no other piece of hardware that came from Apple with a key to which this could conceivably belong? (It doesn't even go into a DuoDock.)