Question:
Bloody touchpad? Who designed that!
Hello.
The time has come for me to buy a 2nd laptop (I currently have Thinkpad X41 which is sweet for work/surfing the net etc... but I want something more "multimedia"). So... MacBook Pro. Great design, great features, but this bloody touchpad annoys me. How do you cope with that? It is just to big and you can't avoid pressing it with your palm when you rest your hands on the laptop. And then it works really bad...
I've looked on numerous machines having touchpad (my x41 don't - and thats why it is so great ^__^) and some are really bad, but as far as I see mbp is the worse (vaio sz is the only one that I have found exceptionally good... touchpad is small, perfect size, and placed in a way that you do not need to lay your hands on it while typeing)...
Furthermore since usual Apple's policy is "do everything by software" theres no turn off switch that some laptops include (its nice then...) so you really cant turn the bloody thing off....
I would be happy to hear your opinnions.
Answer:
Re: Bloody touchpad? Who designed that!
I do not actually own one yet, but will tomorrow(fingers croosed). As I understand there is a setting to turn the touchpad off while you are typing. Try out some more Mac-centric forums or pages. You should find your problem resolved there. HTH
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Re: Bloody touchpad? Who designed that!
Let me take a wild guess, you have very small hands? I mean, I can't make my hands touch the touchpad when I type.
I find it very responsive and I absolutely love the "place two fingers on the touchpad" and scroll feature. From a design point of view it looks great having the touchpad closely matching the "widescreen" aspect of the screen.
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Re: Bloody touchpad? Who designed that!
There are two settings for it in Mac OS X, "ignore accidental input" (can't attest to how good that is) and "ignore touchpad entirely when an external mouse is connected". So if it really bothers you you could connect an external mouse I guess :)