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?
Schlock. CC-by-nc-sa licensed on flickr by nathan.
Picture: “Schlock.” CC-by-nc-sa licensed on flickr by nathan.
