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This is the most elegant critique to the current line of Macs I've read so far. I hope it reaches the right eyes and ears. While Steve Jobs was unique, I belie

• jseliger 9y ago
  This is the most elegant critique to the current line of Macs I've read so far. I hope it reaches the right eyes and ears. I tried a 12" MacBook. It was a gorgeous machine and wildly fast given its size. But its trackpad is a grotesque monstrosity, and while I writing I too often activated it by accident, flinging the cursor to some distant spot by accident. Then I'd have to stop, recover, and reset. I can't figure out what usability case would mandate a trackpad that large. I returned the computer and suspect that the last generation of 13" MBPs may become "legendary," because they don't make the ginormous trackpad error.
  • mgkimsal 9y ago
    > I can't figure out what usability case would mandate a trackpad that large. I couldn't figure it out either. Did they have a bunch of focus group feedback saying "this trackpad is too damn small... moving my wrist 1/4" to touch the trackpad from a resting spot is way too much work, I'd rather have my wrists touching the trackpad"? That's the only feedback I can see them getting to justify it. That or... it's a general trend towards the ios-ification of mac, and pushing towards "touch interface" for everything (except, of course, on the actual screen).
  • ksec 9y ago
    That is exactly the problem with current Apple, it felt like they are doing this for the sake of it, not because it is in any case better.