PowerBook MousePad

idratherbe007idratherbe007
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in Current Mac Hardware edited January 2014
Am I the only one that thinks that the mouse pad on the PowerBook is a dinosaur in terms of productive usefulness? I think Apple should have updated the pad some time ago and certainly with the new 12? and 17? units. I'll take 2 buttons and a scroll zone, please... along with some software to assign left/right functions and scroll zone location. How about an assignable horizontal scroll zone? It would be quite handy in scrubbing through FinalCut footage.

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  • Reply 1 of 12
    t'hain esh kelcht'hain esh kelch Posts: 1,274member
    Scroll zone 0wnz... But why would you want a scroll wheel too?
  • Reply 2 of 12
    roborobo Posts: 469member
    Yeah.. at least the scroll area, or a wheel. And 2 buttons, but i think Apple has a serious corporate complex about >1 button mice..
  • Reply 3 of 12
    idratherbe007idratherbe007 Posts: 5member
    No wheels please? depending on your preference, you could have vertical scrolling on the left or right edge of the pad (it?s certainly nice and large enough) and horizontal scrolling could be assigned to the top or bottom edge, and for those that don?t need any scrolling on the pad, that preference could also be selectable. The one long button could easily be two buttons and Apple corporate can grow-up. The revision would be much more user friendly (to say the least) and considerably more productive in functionality.
  • Reply 4 of 12
    slick501bslick501b Posts: 54member
    yeah, they do have a complex, they think it's too complex, they pride themselves on simplicity.
  • Reply 5 of 12
    bodhibodhi Posts: 1,424member
    Going to Current Hardware....
  • Reply 6 of 12
    jasonfjjasonfj Posts: 567member
    Which takes us back to the question - when Apple will use all that space below the keyboard for a drawing tablet...
  • Reply 7 of 12
    msanttimsantti Posts: 1,377member
    Many people dog Steve Jobs for clinging on to the 1 button mouse.



    Don't forget, Jobs was gone from 1986 to 1996 and Apple still kept the 1 button mouse.
  • Reply 8 of 12
    chuckerchucker Posts: 5,089member
    [quote]Originally posted by jasonfj:

    <strong>Which takes us back to the question - when Apple will use all that space below the keyboard for a drawing tablet...</strong><hr></blockquote>



    Never.



    "I'll take 2 buttons and a scroll zone, please... along with some software to assign left/right functions and scroll zone location. How about an assignable horizontal scroll zone?"



    There is some open-source tooll for adding a scroll zone.



    As to 2 buttons, Apple refuse to do it to encourage developers to make their GUIs more-or-less useful (which means: any context menu item should also be available from the menu bar, and the same applies to any toolbar button). Of course, Apple often don't stick to that themselves any more.
  • Reply 9 of 12
    paulpaul Posts: 5,278member
    <a href="http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/ucontrol/index.html"; target="_blank">http://www.ragingmenace.com/software/ucontrol/index.html</a>;
  • Reply 10 of 12
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    omfg paul i love you
  • Reply 11 of 12
    paulpaul Posts: 5,278member
    [quote]Originally posted by Jonathan:

    <strong>omfg paul i love you</strong><hr></blockquote>



    ummm yeah...



    it wont let me remap my enter key to Fn tho, so its still kind of a pain to use... but I am sure this will be fixed
  • Reply 12 of 12
    ghost_user_nameghost_user_name Posts: 22,667member
    dude i dont care i am just digging this scroll thingy.
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