It is being reported across the Mac web that an issue exists with the new MacBook Pro’s trackpad. The issues which has been picked up by PCPro.co.uk and AppleInsider seems to only affect the MacBook Pro and not the MacBook which also features the brand new button-less trackpad.
PCPro quotes this customer experience:
“Every 50 clicks, my trackpad will stop responding for five to clicks,” reports one poster. “Generally this will resolve itself given a few seconds, and is not directly dependent on number of times the trackpad is clicked while unresponsive.”
According to another blogger an email to Steve Jobs resulted in a call back from Apple. Despite the call back containing little substance it does confirm that Apple is aware of the issue.
Today the situation has been fortified further as reported by Mac Rumors an email coming from Steve Jobs’ email account reveals that a “software fix is coming soon”.
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masu
18th November 2008, 08.37 am
My buttonless trackpad had mostly issues with tap-to-click feature and occasional jamming. Sometimes the trackpad just stopped and did not respond for a few seconds. The tap-to-click feature also disappeared suddenly. I fixed it by going to trackpad properties and unchecking and checking the tap-to-click checkbox. Pretty annoying bugs both of them. I checked the updates every day and finally today the new trackpad firmware is released! I installed it and so far it seems to have fixed all of my problems. Way to go Apple!
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Ryan
19th November 2008, 10.44 am
Uhmm, are you having problems with your wifi? Coz I heard a guy had problems with his mbp’s wifi connection.
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