I noticed this to! The acceleration can be learned, but the difference in x/y is very annoying! You can test this by moving the finger in 45 degree, which makes the cursor go in an angel of about 60 degree.
not on mine, mine exactly mirrors my movement on the track-pad. I've had no problems with my PowerBook G4. It's brilliant.
I agree. My new trackpad seems to track just fine. Maybe three years of using an iBook trackpad has influenced my opinion, but I'm perfectly happy with mine.
In answer to your original question, I have a 15' pbook and the trackpad works perfect. I was a bit scared at first after reading what people had writtend, but no worries. Everything about the pbook 1.5ghz is awesome. I have zero complaints. And boy was I happy when there were no stuck/dead pixels.
When I first started using it yesterday, I felt it was a bit jerky, but then I unselected the "ignore accidental input from trackpad" and it works great now!
When I first started using it yesterday, I felt it was a bit jerky, but then I unselected the "ignore accidental input from trackpad" and it works great now!
My track-pad has been perfect. I am so please with my PowerBook, the only problem is the latch is broken so they're going to send me a new one and they're taking the old one away. I've got to wait two weeks! :-(
Anyway I just hope the new track-pad is as good. The keyboard is amazing, I'm using it now with very little light and it;s so much easier than my external keyboard!! The two finger scrolling is perfect, ingenious invention. Simple but really effective.
wtf? I tried to install the hacked drivers a couple of weeks ago; it didn't work, so i replaced it with the original one. as i was just visiting this thread, gave the scroll thing a try, and suddenly it works?!??!
Yea the new backlight is useful, but i think it would be much more useful in apples separate keyboard that they ship with desktops. the keyboard on the 17 PB is so close to the screen that you just have to turn the screen brightness up when its dark, and the screen will illuminate the keys enough for use.
Desktops however, don't necessarily have the keyboard right next to the monitor. I know other companies make light-up keyboards, but apple could do it so much better.
Concerning the trackpad- my 1.67's track pad is butter smooth, and the scrolling works great. It feels very slow to windows users because they aren't used to the velocity sensitive thing, and just have their mouse set to track very fast.
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Originally posted by palled
I noticed this to! The acceleration can be learned, but the difference in x/y is very annoying! You can test this by moving the finger in 45 degree, which makes the cursor go in an angel of about 60 degree.
not on mine, mine exactly mirrors my movement on the track-pad. I've had no problems with my PowerBook G4. It's brilliant.
Kudos to Apple on this upgrade...
Originally posted by OBJRA10
When I first started using it yesterday, I felt it was a bit jerky, but then I unselected the "ignore accidental input from trackpad" and it works great now!
My track-pad has been perfect. I am so please with my PowerBook, the only problem is the latch is broken so they're going to send me a new one and they're taking the old one away. I've got to wait two weeks! :-(
Anyway I just hope the new track-pad is as good. The keyboard is amazing, I'm using it now with very little light and it;s so much easier than my external keyboard!! The two finger scrolling is perfect, ingenious invention. Simple but really effective.
only the circular movement, though...
Desktops however, don't necessarily have the keyboard right next to the monitor. I know other companies make light-up keyboards, but apple could do it so much better.
Concerning the trackpad- my 1.67's track pad is butter smooth, and the scrolling works great. It feels very slow to windows users because they aren't used to the velocity sensitive thing, and just have their mouse set to track very fast.