As awesome as the buttonless glass Multi-touch trackpads on the new MacBooks and MacBook Pros may be, they’re plagued by a serious drawback—they randomly ignore left clicks whenever it strikes their fancy. Apparently, it’s quite a widespread issue and a significant number of users have been complaining about it on Apple centric discussion forums everywhere.
One of the affected users, however, decided to go one step further and send an email directly to the captain of the ship, Steve Jobs, at his publicly known email address. As he details on his blog, he later got a call from an Apple representative who assured him that it was a known issue and that they were looking into it, although he couldn’t offer any temporary fix in the meanwhile.
The person in question (I really wish he’d taken the time to at least identify himself on his blog) then enquired about the looseness of the hinge on the new MacBook Pro, which causes the lid to fall shut when the notebook is raised from the rear end, and the Apple guy told him that this was how the hinge was designed this time round and that it wasn’t a flaw.
Moral of the story: If you’re having clicking issues with the trackpad on your new unibody MacBook or MacBook Pro, be patient because there might be a fix on the horizon. If, however, you just can’t get that darned lid to stay upright, a little scotch tape and a couple of small sticks just might get the job done.
[Via AppleInsider]
