Comments on: Quick tip: Tame your mouse on OS X Lion

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:45:48 +0000

I wouldn’t object to a USB trackpad, but I haven’t found the batteries to be a real problem. You get alerts when the batteries are low, and mine have never failed completely. I just replace them after 1-2 warnings.

I probably spend 2-3 hours a day using the track pad, and the batteries last 4-5 months. No complaints here.

By: Michael W. Perry

Michael W. Perry — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 23:54:14 +0000

The Magic Trackpad’s certainly better that the too-small and uncomfortable-to-hold Magic Mouse, but it’s still a Bluetooth/battery device. I’ve had enough trouble with batteries dying at inconvenient times to want that bother.

If Apple wants more of us to take up the Magic Trackpad, they really should give us a USB version, perhaps even a USB version that attaches easily and firmly to the side of their nifty little USB keyboard.

Besides the batteries, I sometimes work in a reading room at the University of Washington where, in early afternoon, some 200 students are in one big room trying to access WiFi over aging 2.4 GHz routers. The resulting spectrum clutter can make anything Bluetooth behave very quirky.

By: Rich

Rich — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 22:36:13 +0000

I feel the same way and I’m using the Magic Trackpad with Snow Leopard.

By: Macbook Pro

Macbook Pro — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 18:03:36 +0000

Option 3 for me. Once you’ve tried track you never go back. Once you figure out all the gestures that is.

By: Bill

Bill — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 13:35:49 +0000

Trackpad. Love it. Won’t go back to a mouse.