New Macbook Pro...

[Paws]

...doesn't have any mouse/trackpad button anymore

 

[jimm04]

It's a mental thing

 

[ANDORYUU]

I have a new MacBook 2.4, it arrived yesterday.

The whole trackpad is a button. It means you can click anywhere you like on it. Also gives you more room to scroll and do gestures such as nipping, scrolling, twisting etc.

The MacBook Pro has the same trackpad, and the MacBook Air has the same gesture features.

 

[jubalon]

I have a new MacBook 2.4, it arrived yesterday.

The whole trackpad is a button. It means you can click anywhere you like on it. Also gives you more room to scroll and do gestures such as nipping, scrolling, twisting etc.

The MacBook Pro has the same trackpad, and the MacBook Air has the same gesture features.

How is the click-action on it? Is it hard to push down, and does it move a lot down when you push it?

I'm glad that the differences from the last one to this one wasn't that much. Still feeling absolutely satisfied with mine. Though, I would imagine that the gestures are improved a lot. I find that the mouse button makes it really problematic to use them.

 

[ANDORYUU]

Only the bottom half of the track depresses. Very easy to press down, but not so that it happens unexpectedly.

I'm still learning the gestures, but generally they are ok. They aren't very customisable, though you can add features.

1 finger:

moves the curser,
secondary click in bottom corners (same functions as CTRL+Click),
tap

2 fingers:

pinch and nip,
twist and rotate images,
scroll,
secondary click (same functions as CTRL+Click)

3 fingers:

Page forward / Back in Safari

4 fingers:

up and down reveals Exposé,
swipe left / right to change programmes.

 

[thermodynamics]

Ahhhhhh! I'm someone who likes lots of buttons, with each one doing something different. I don't need what others would call a "clean" interface. Unless carried to ridiculous excess, the more buttons, the better.

I guess I'll be sticking with ThinkPads with their TrackPoints and dual sets of L/R mouse buttons.

 

[ANDORYUU]

^ Less is more my friend.

 

[andysayshi]

I have the previous version of the MacBook Pro. I love and use trackpad gestures so much, it drives me insane to use a machine without them now.

 

[PoodeyFan]

Macs are overrated

 

[ANDORYUU]

^Really? Thanks for your constructive comments. Please feel free to enlighten us again!

 

[mike_n_herrin]

It sounds hard to use, but you guys are saying no huh? crazy. these new things.

 

[ANDORYUU]

Actually it's getting easier the more I use it. Now I know the combinations it feels completely normal not to have a separate button.

Then again, I've been use to a one button mouse for years, and didn't have any difficulty with that. But I do using a standard 2 button mouse, weird eh?

 

[dutchjoe]

I ordered my new Mac book pro last week :-D
Can't wait till it arrives, a great new graphics card and 4gb ram! I like

Apple rocks!

 

[Puzuzzu]

It's a mental thing

rofl hahahahah what?!?!?! ahhaahah

 

[gdude30]

It's not easy to use.

IT'S TOTALLY GONE.

I used one today.

I tried to do right click.

Darn computer.

It kept doing right click click

Not right click keep window tab open until I tell you what to do.

I like the keys and trackpad on my last gen macbook pro better.

But the screen size is nice and it feeling more like macbook air is nice too.

But why the hell did apple put battery meter below on the old mac book pro.

And the new one has changeable memory and battery..and better graphics.

Darn. I'll wait til I get a damn good job and then a price drop in them..

 

[hotatlboi]

I need a new one of these SO bad. I have a macbook right now but it's one of the ones from a few years ago with the crappy graphics so I can't play any games.

 

[spiderhead]

Blech. I"m really disappointed with the new macs. I HATE that they've switched to the glossy screen, and only 4 gigs of ram? WTF? If I'm gonna pay top dollar for a machine I want a top of the line machine, not an average one. There isn't even a blu ray player on it and the hard drive isn't the fastest out there either.

 

[Persian89]

same old story

with apple you always pay more for less

i really like my used IMac tho

Depends when you buy it.

Buy it when they upgrade.
Not 5 months after the upgrade and 1 month before the new upgrades.
Feel me?

 

[jackry]

change sucks but now you get to use 4 fingers. Thats cool and kinky.

 

[davy]

^ Less is more my friend.

then why not go with less and just use a keyboard?

(just kidding)

i don't hate macs or windows. i think that both are a little counter-intuitive. (for me atleast).

when i had to do something with my system; my gut reaction is to open up a terminal using the keyboard. every-once-and-a-while i'll be using mac osx or windows xp/vista and, for a split second, i'll forget that you can't use a terminal. (with a mac, you can use a terminal for some things, but not the things that you usually play with anyways).

i even when i'm relaxing and just perusing jub or watching a video; i still rely on the keyboard. in my linux system i just hit q for quit or f for full screen. (it makes sense to me). when i'm on a windows or mac system watching a video, i'll also hit q or f and get upset at myself for forgetting that doesn't work... you have to use some other button comboniation or (sometimes) the mouse. yuck.

but compared to the glaring security holes in mac and windows; those are just peanuts.