Re:iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro
by selimnairb on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @03:23PM
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I disagree. The aircraft carrier sized trackpads of the recent MBPs continues to register errant clicks for me. They are just way too big.
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Yeah, I especially like it when I'm in the middle of a long email and some sort of click with my palm happens and it deletes most of what I've been typing. Just happened to me today. Be nice if there was a way to totally deactivate the trackpad if you were using a mouse or something.
https://osxdaily.com/2017/01/05/disable-built-in-trackpad-ma...
My 10yo MBP's trackpad glitches so I do exactly this to keep it usable for kids light usage.
Re:iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 Pro
by trackpadlover on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @03:49PM
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So, just to give you data on the other side of the curve: the very large trackpads are basically the only reason left (keyboard now sucks, magsafe is gone) for me to use a MacBook Pro.
Should I in the future revert to Linux as a day-to-day driver, it would probably be conditioned on similar-level support for the (even larger :-D) Magic Trackpad peripheral.
So I guess this is one of these things where YMMV
Edit: FWIW I'm a touch typist with relatively small hands. Maybe this has to do with it. I cannot remember accidentally triggering the trackpad ever since... I can't remember the last time, it's been at least half a decade.