On 15 Oct, 13:27, Jaimie Vandenbergh <jai...@sometimes.sessile.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:22:21 +0100, m...@privacy.net (zoara) wrote:
> >What are the benefits of having a glass trackpad? I can't work it out.
> Rigidity (for the button press) and crossover technology (thus cost > savings) for multitouch with the iPhone/iPod Touch. I reckon.
Maybe it's just me but one of the problems I have with the iPhone UI is that it sometimes interprets the start of a drag/scroll as a click. E.g. I want to scroll the list of folders in Mail, but instead it selects the folder that my finger happens to land on and moves the mail into the wrong folder. May not be such a problem on the Mac where there is well-defined area for scrolling, but the buttton-less trackpad could be a mixed blessing.
>> >What are the benefits of having a glass trackpad? I can't work it out.
>> Rigidity (for the button press) and crossover technology (thus cost >> savings) for multitouch with the iPhone/iPod Touch. I reckon.
>Maybe it's just me but one of the problems I have with the iPhone UI >is that it sometimes interprets the start of a drag/scroll as a click.
I never get that. Do you have guitar-player's fingernails? They can cause bounce.
> but the buttton-less >trackpad could be a mixed blessing.
I'm thinking the same. On the MB and Air I keep my thumb over the button to press it. I always turn tap-trackpad-to-click off. Clicking the whole trackpad with an index finger would take some retraining, and (depending on how hard you need to push) may be as bad as tap-to-click.
Using a thumb to press at the bottom of the trackpad will presumably perturb the mouse cursor. Hmm. Maybe it's clever enough not to.
If anyone meets one, would they please try it?
Cheers - Jaimie -- Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.
>> What are the benefits of having a glass trackpad? I can't work it out.
>Hopfully it won't wear as quickly as the trackpad has worn on my MBP. >Only a couple of years old but it already has a shiny patch in the >middle.
The MBs do the same. It's barely visible on whitebooks, but really so on black ones. From what I've seen, silver is in between.
Giving them a good scrubbing with alcohol wipes or similar does help a lot, at least in the early stages.
Cheers - Jaimie -- A Jesus of mass J travelling at a speed of 27 meters/second collides with a stationary Moses of mass M. Assuming any elastic deformation is lossless and perfectly reversible, calculate how long it will be until the next Passover. -- Tanuki, asr
> >> >What are the benefits of having a glass trackpad? I can't work it out.
> >> Rigidity (for the button press) and crossover technology (thus cost > >> savings) for multitouch with the iPhone/iPod Touch. I reckon.
> >Maybe it's just me but one of the problems I have with the iPhone UI > >is that it sometimes interprets the start of a drag/scroll as a click.
> I never get that. Do you have guitar-player's fingernails? They can > cause bounce.
> > but the buttton-less > >trackpad could be a mixed blessing.
> I'm thinking the same. On the MB and Air I keep my thumb over the > button to press it. I always turn tap-trackpad-to-click off. Clicking > the whole trackpad with an index finger would take some retraining, > and (depending on how hard you need to push) may be as bad as > tap-to-click.
> Using a thumb to press at the bottom of the trackpad will presumably > perturb the mouse cursor. Hmm. Maybe it's clever enough not to.
> If anyone meets one, would they please try it?
I had a play today at a couple of MBs at the Regent St Store and was surprised. The 'button' on (or, rather, 'in') the glass trackpad has quite a positive feel when you click and I didn't experience it perturbing the cursor; the trackpad as a cursor controler didn't otherwise feel different at all.
I was using the thumb to 'press the button' as I always do, btw.
Jaimie Vandenbergh <jai...@sometimes.sessile.org> wrote: > On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:22:21 +0100, m...@privacy.net (zoara) wrote:
> >What are the benefits of having a glass trackpad? I can't work it out.
> Rigidity (for the button press) and crossover technology (thus cost > savings) for multitouch with the iPhone/iPod Touch. I reckon.
The first one I can see, though surely there are better materials to use? Maybe I'm just thrown because I always thought of glass being chosen for its transparency and not its rigidity.
The second one? Hmmm. Don't the older MacBook[Pro]s use the same technology (ie capacitive sensing) just under a different material? What I mean is, isn't all the technology already shared, except for the layer on the top?
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