[OSX-Users] Re: De-clicking macbooks

[Jules Field]

Interesting. The opposite of my view of the machine. I use mine every 
day (even rip DVDs on it), and it's behaving great. Huge multi-layer 
building plans in Illustrator stretch it a bit, but otherwise absolutely 
fine for me.
I've got the 1.3GHz version with 8GB RAM.

I never video-conference, so can't comment on that.

Jules.

On 14/01/2016 11:46, Tim Chown wrote:
> Beware the new Macbook.
>
> The force touch trackpad is very cool, and letting people play with the feel of pad before turning the device off, and then letting them try again, is quite something.
>
> But the Macbook itself is very underpowered for any moderately heavy duty work. Videoconferencing is particularly poor. That’s the price you pay for the sleek form factor. But if you want to do serious work, stick with a MBP.
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> Tim
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>
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>> On 13 Jan 2016, at 21:50, Jules Field <Jules at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>>
>> Buy a MacBook with a Force Touch trackpad, such as the 2015 MacBook. They're hopefully about to extend them to MacBook Pros as well.
>> On the Force Touch trackpad, the trackpad never actually moves at all. All the audio and haptic feedback is "artificial", and you can turn off the clicks in System Preferences.
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>> -- 
>> Jules
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>>> On 13 Jan 2016, at 9:39 pm, Christopher Gutteridge <cjg at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
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>>> The clickyclickyclicky of macbook touchpads drives my partner up the wall. She's given up trying to find a solution but I figured it's worth asking if anybody has any suggestions. The only effective solution she's found so far involves a sledge hammer which does stop the clicking but reduces the effectiveness of the device...
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>>> Any ideas?
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>>> -- 
>>> Christopher Gutteridge -- http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cjg
>>>
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>

Jules

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