First MacBook Pro Problems: Trackpad
Looks like I was right holding off on the new MacBook Pros for a while: A huge part of the users apparently experiences problems with the “no button” trackpad not registering clicks:
A tip came in this weekend from someone with a fleet of new MacBooks. His complaint? Every 50 or so clicks and the trackpad freezes for 5 to 10 clicks and then wakes back up.
The users in the comments over at CrunchGear also note that the click of the new “button-less” trackpad is considerably louder than the previous versions’ button, which is why some of them have switched on “finger-tap” clicking (incidentally a feature that I disabled on my laptop because it mistook my moving the mouse as a click too often). Maybe it’s a case of nostalgia: Dear younger generation, this may be news to you, but keyboards always used to have an audible “click” sound whenever you pressed a button (and I can’t believe that’s how old I am already 
).
Let’s see how long it takes for the first hardware and software fixes to be released. And for old times’ sake, when will the first battery factory recall be?
Picture: “Schlock.” CC-by-nc-sa licensed on flickr by nathan.
Don’t want it? Give it to me!
Haha, no, I don’t want to *buy* it quite yet. It’s not that I bought one and feel “buyer’s remorse”. Sorry, Chris
The intriguing thing is that the long-standing “buy me a Mac” joke doesn’t work so well anymore
Considering both my batteries are dying these days, I’d take a replacement Mac if anyone wanted to buy me one
(There you have it!)
Yes, the mouse click is VERY loud, and so is the keyboard.
What’s worse is that if one intends to do some browsing in bed with the sig other is asleep, the button click could easily awake her. That is if the new screen’s brightness isn’t keeping her up, or my cursing at the screen as it continuously closes upon its own weight.
I have the new MBP, and yes the click is loud. I haven’t experienced the dead clicks problem. I have never had the screen close itself because of the weight (although, think how much less this bad boy would weigh if they didnt use glass!
Purchased 2006 MacBook Pro for my Daughter for College. The school required that each student in Graphics Arts have one. So far we have had to replace the battery, hard drive and now it looks like the Logic Board is going out. With the money that I have spent on new parts and pieces, I probably could have bought a new one.
Mac needs to get on board with this model and offer an extended warranty or a trade in.