Whats wrong with the macbooks trackpads?

Combat squirrel · 18 Jul 2008 at 17:12

As title, I was *in a place where they display apple machines*, looking at the notebooks, and was playing on the macbook and there is a distinct delay when using the trackpad, like it has trouble keeping up with where my finger was, very disorientating.

I then went on the macbookpro, and it was instant, it followed where my finger was all the time, both machines were 2.4ghz core2, 1gb ram and 2gb respectivily.

I was going to get a macbook, but if there all like that, NO WAY, it will have to be a pro

expense just for a trackpad that can keep up with me:

EDIT: there were 2 macbooks there, both showed the same behavior.

J1234 · 18 Jul 2008 at 17:20

Probably the track pad speed.

For some reason they are on the slowest speed by default which is extremely slow. Same for any mice you plug in.

Combat squirrel · 18 Jul 2008 at 17:22

Justin said:
Probably the track pad speed.

For some reason they are on the slowest speed by default which is extremely slow. Same for any mice you plug in.

No checked that, put it up higher, and played with the track speed on different settings, lag still there

J1234 · 18 Jul 2008 at 17:27

That's odd.

Let me guess, was it the purple shirts place?

MrMoonX · 18 Jul 2008 at 17:29

mines fine

Combat squirrel · 19 Jul 2008 at 12:32

Justin said:
That's odd.

Let me guess, was it the purple shirts place?

It was, how would that effect the mouse ?

nichorob · 19 Jul 2008 at 12:36

On my Macbook now, trackpad is fine, no noticeable lag or anything. Don't let it put you off.

Combat squirrel · 19 Jul 2008 at 12:59

odd, it was only running one app, I dont get why it lagged

nichorob · 19 Jul 2008 at 13:04

Being a display model its probably been poked, bashed and vandalized by few hundred different people and developed a fault. I can assure you a brand new one will be fine though.

Combat squirrel · 19 Jul 2008 at 13:08

Frank Butcher said:
Being a display model its probably been poked, bashed and vandalized by few hundred different people and developed a fault. I can assure you a brand new one will be fine though.

I guess, its not a 'fault' though, it works fine, its just got a very slight delay, like the mouse pointer is 'heavy' if that makes sense......like its accelerating then gets upto speed but never --quite-- keeps up with you, obviously as said I checked the settings, so it wasn't that, unless the settings didn't apply properly of course. My mate has one ill have a look at his, I was wondering weather the onboard graphics aren't fast enough or something, giving the cpu to much to do or something,lol.

gumbald · 19 Jul 2008 at 15:25

It's got bad AIDS from all the types of people that go in there. Try one in a proper shop that doesn't get such abuse for being a "shiny thing".

LordSplodge · 19 Jul 2008 at 22:22

Mouse acceleration is different on OS X. Takes some getting used to, however it doesn't explain lag (it does explain why you feel the pointer is heavy)

The mouse on my PC feels odd now...