While its nice to see that Apple finally has reasonably advanced tapping support on its touch pads (had that in Linux on my laptop over 4 years ago,) there is really no excuse for the touchpads that they have been using on the Macbook(Pro)?s. The thing is too large to use without lifting your hand from rest, and the button is ridiculously large. Apple has some lingering one button fetish (Even their '4 button' mouse looks like a one button - I've had to explain that it wasn't to about 60% of the users to whom we've deployed them.) It simply doesn't make sense to not put more than one button on a laptop - Especially since they (Apple or their fanboys, can't remember which) constantly brag that you can run Windows on the things. That'd be a whole lot of fun without two buttons. Don't even get me started on the keyboards.
As to what Apple are actually guilty of, thats for a whole seperate volume of articles.
Just incase anyone is worried that I'm not qualified to complain, I use a Mac every weekday at work, where I am one of 3 people that provides user support for about 300 Apple machines - I have had ample opportunity to see where they went right and wrong.
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While its nice to see that Apple finally has reasonably advanced tapping support on its touch pads (had that in Linux on my laptop over 4 years ago,) there is really no excuse for the touchpads that they have been using on the Macbook(Pro)?s. The thing is too large to use without lifting your hand from rest, and the button is ridiculously large. Apple has some lingering one button fetish (Even their '4 button' mouse looks like a one button - I've had to explain that it wasn't to about 60% of the users to whom we've deployed them.) It simply doesn't make sense to not put more than one button on a laptop - Especially since they (Apple or their fanboys, can't remember which) constantly brag that you can run Windows on the things. That'd be a whole lot of fun without two buttons. Don't even get me started on the keyboards.
As to what Apple are actually guilty of, thats for a whole seperate volume of articles.
Just incase anyone is worried that I'm not qualified to complain, I use a Mac every weekday at work, where I am one of 3 people that provides user support for about 300 Apple machines - I have had ample opportunity to see where they went right and wrong.