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I had the black MacBook. Yes the “upgrade” was pretty much just because it looked cool, still does imo. Probably one of my most memorable computers, since I pl

• robohoe 5y ago
  After 15 years, my black MacBook is in a closet. I will admit that it's still looking good compared to my spouse's 2007 white MacBook (that we still have). Running Linux on those was painful due to trackpad driver issues :(. Otherwise they would still be doing something in my household.
  • paulywog 5y ago
    An interesting thing about these trackpads, the hardware was actually pretty bad. It can only move the cursor in the X or the Y axis at any given time, i.e. the hardware does not support diagonal cursor movement. Apple's driver did a great job of masking that with fuzzing and (I believe) predictive movement, that's the reason it seemed good in Mac OS X. But you can even tell in OS X if you're really looking for it! https://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-813884.html https://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-813884.html