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The one with the built in click.

I was using my friends macbook and at first I was like, this is a cool idea. But then I actually started using it and it was so clumsy. It wouldnt click when i wanted it to and I couldnt rest my thumb anywhere really. Whats your thoughts?

My brother is thinking about getting one, and Ive heard there have been problems. Will these be fixed by drivers or is it just a flawed design?

Edit: wrong section. Sorry

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I love it.

I dont' really have any issues with it not clicking, but I do have it set up so clicking AND tapping on it works. I find it SUPER useful--the three finger swipes for forward/back I use daily with Finder/Safari and the four finger swipes for expose I use about every 2 minutes =D.

And the two finger scrolling... but that's on non-multitouch track pads, isn't? Still, I use that about every minute as well.

I will agree, sometimes it won't scroll or go back/foward and I'll be confused until I realize my other hand is just barely touching the corner or what not--just a minor annoyance really, nothing that should defer a purchase!

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Well, I hated (and still hate) PC Laptop trackpads, but this one is just genius for me.

The big size is a big plus, the fact that you actually click the trackpad where is pointing your finger is more easy for me than pointing somewhere and then click with the thumb a button and also avoid registering bad mouse clicks by just touching the trackpad when it's not the time.

Sure, it take some time to get used when you are used to regular trackpad, the top don't easily click well because of the lever mechanism and the bottom is far less sensitive for tracking because many people will use this place to put the thumb for clicking as if it would be a normal button.

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I LOVE it after taking the time to get used to it. I hate standard PC tracpads now.

The only problem i have with it is with Photoshop CS4. It is too easy to accidentally rotate the image you are working on.

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I think it's awesome. :) Perhaps even the best part with my Mac.

I'm a huge fan of the "everything is the button" idea, especially to prevent misclicks that I keep doing if "tapping" it is enough, and "right-clicking" is so simple. The back/forward flipping, show desktop, and show Expos? gestures are also nice touches. I also like that Firefox uses the three fingers up/down gesture to scroll to the top/bottom of a page. I also like the accuracy of it, it pretty much never misinterprets what I'm doing -- the direct opposite of my former experience with PC touchpads.

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It's a good idea, an evolutionary one. It makes sense that eventually, all trackpads will simply function for both scrolling and clicking. I still find, though, that there are times when I *HAVE* to click down on the trackpad, because a simple tap won't register.

I'm actually more pleased that the trackpad is made of glass. Makes it extremely easy to clean, and it resists the dreaded "shine" that the older plastic trackpads were prone to getting.

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Aside from the fact that I now try to push in standard laptop trackpads and nearly break them in the process, it's the best trackpad I've ever used. My productivity has gone up at least two-fold.

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On the trackpad:

  • In Windows: abosloutely ****ing terrible (Apple's drivers, that is)
    In OSX: brilliant

Actually, the Boot Camp 3.0 drivers in Snow Leopard finally fix the trackpad in Windows. I just installed Windows 7 and can tap to click, double-tap for secondary clicking, the works. It all works great. And it only took Apple 3+ years to get it right.

Also, the 3.0 drivers now seem to support 64-bit editions of Windows.

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Actually, the Boot Camp 3.0 drivers in Snow Leopard finally fix the trackpad in Windows. I just installed Windows 7 and can tap to click, double-tap for secondary clicking, the works. It all works great. And it only took Apple 3+ years to get it right.

Also, the 3.0 drivers now seem to support 64-bit editions of Windows.

Awesome news. Hopefully can pick up a copy of that next week.

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Aside from the fact that I now try to push in standard laptop trackpads and nearly break them in the process, it's the best trackpad I've ever used. My productivity has gone up at least two-fold.

I do that all the time. Took a little getting used to at first, but now it would be hard to go back.

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Well it's better than a normal trackpad, that's for sure. I don't use all the gestures all the time but I'm thankful to have them there when I do. The two-finger scrolling is probably the best bit about it for me. No more coordinating your fingers so that one is on the mouse button or trying to find that hidden scroller on the side.

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Actually, the Boot Camp 3.0 drivers in Snow Leopard finally fix the trackpad in Windows. I just installed Windows 7 and can tap to click, double-tap for secondary clicking, the works. It all works great. And it only took Apple 3+ years to get it right.

Also, the 3.0 drivers now seem to support 64-bit editions of Windows.

Only on select macs, they didn't permit my iMac to install Bootcamp in x64. Yet, it can do x64 and I was already on Windows in x64. I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate x64. Windows was nice to ask me if I wanted to run it with some compatibility settings, then all of a sudden, it just said lets install Bootcamp. I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate x64 on an iMac that was built two years ago. I think it was an iMac 7,1. Not very old, in fact, I believe, the next iMac was the one with the new nVidia graphics and came out two weeks later. But no, Apple makes it so you can't return without paying 200 dollars. Then came the one recently with the nVidia 9400M graphics and DDR3 memory. So I would assume the newest is iMac 9,1, and the one before that is iMac 8,1, and the came mine two weeks before that 8,1, which is iMac 7,1.

Still looks as sexy as the new iMacs though. Just not the inside... :(

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Aside from the fact that I now try to push in standard laptop trackpads and nearly break them in the process, it's the best trackpad I've ever used.

Haha took the words out of my mouth.

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Let me say that i was a major Apple hater for the last years.

Last month i bought a Macbook Pro 13" for my wife after i destroyed her HP (piece of crap).

And i was amazed by the quality of the hardware and the OSX.

Now i have to bite my tounge and say that im ditching PCs and im going to buy me a Mac very soon.

Ive never seen an OS so easy to use, and the multitouch pad is a blessing.

Hats off.

PS.

Sorry about all the hate i spread about Apple over the years...:)

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I have an older macbook and it doesn't have that feature, but my Gf's macbook is another stroy. When I try to use hers it always freaks out on me. IMO I don't really like the feature, it seems like Mac is trying to hard to make the mouse pad like a laptop/pc mouse pad but it's just way too sensitive.

EDIT: oh yeah but I LOVE the 2 finger scrolling and those features, but i think that mac should just stick with the one button and not have the touch pad click the mouse.

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Let me say that i was a major Apple hater for the last years.

Last month i bought a Macbook Pro 13" for my wife after i destroyed her HP (piece of crap).

And i was amazed by the quality of the hardware and the OSX.

Now i have to bite my tounge and say that im ditching PCs and im going to buy me a Mac very soon.

Ive never seen an OS so easy to use, and the multitouch pad is a blessing.

Hats off.

PS.

Sorry about all the hate i spread about Apple over the years...:)

HP oddly is one of the only 2 companies I have nothing bad to say about. The other being Acer.

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I've only had my MacBook Pro for a week, and I've already found myself trying to use the multitouch gestures on my Dell XPS which the Mac is replacing. I can honestly say that this Mac is the first time I have ever actually liked using a trackpad.

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I've only had my MacBook Pro for a week, and I've already found myself trying to use the multitouch gestures on my Dell XPS which the Mac is replacing. I can honestly say that this Mac is the first time I have ever actually liked using a trackpad.

Yep same here. Now when I'm using another laptop I always try do the gestures on it.

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Actually, the Boot Camp 3.0 drivers in Snow Leopard finally fix the trackpad in Windows. I just installed Windows 7 and can tap to click, double-tap for secondary clicking, the works. It all works great. And it only took Apple 3+ years to get it right.

Also, the 3.0 drivers now seem to support 64-bit editions of Windows.

LOL Only 3+ years...

Well the new trackpad on the Unibody is not 3 years old, much more like 10 months old. But 10 months to get a driver right? It still represents too much time.

Thumbs up for the 64-bit support.

I can't wait to finally receive my Snow Leopard, and I'll also have the chance to test Windows 7 for the first time ever. I'll finally get rid of Vista.

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Btw, I simply love the trackpad on the new Unibodys, it's so big compared to other ones, and so much more convenient to use.

In Windows I couldn't say the same thing before the new drivers though. It was a real joke. It pretty much confirms that

Excellent hardware + Poor software = Poor user experience

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LOL Only 3+ years...

Boot Camp was released in 2006, and the drivers never worked on any Apple trackpad, ever, until now.

In Windows I couldn't say the same thing before the new drivers though. It was a real joke. It pretty much confirms that

Excellent hardware + Poor software = Poor user experience

This is true. Of course, it's not Microsoft's fault the old Boot Camp drivers were awful.

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