Poll: To click or not to click?

[morespce54]

I have a MacBook Unibody, my iPod is 5th generation and I don't have a iPhone (yet). As you might notice, I haven't been converted completely (yet) to the "wonderful-world-of-fun-multi-touch" devices and I just can't make my mind whether to use the "tap-to-click" or "click-to-click" option on my MB.

What's your thoughts?
Any multi-touch fans out-here that couldn't go back?
Any old schooler that can't make the switch?
Should we learn the multi-touch way because from now on, we're living in a multi-touch World or will this tech be gone tomorrow?

[Scarlet Fever]

if i had a new macbook, i'd still use the button. I can't click without feeling a button move.

[Cassie]

Generally on my iBook G4, I use the button to click. It's just easier to me for some reason. I will occasionally use the "tap-to-click" option, usually when I'm feeling really lazy and don't want to push a button. :P

[MooneyFlyer]

I prefer the click still but I have the touch-to-click on as well. If my wife is watching a movie it's safer to use the touch-to-click.

The real winner IMHO is the 2-finger scroll and 3-finger "forward/back" for Safari.

[countrykid333]

clicking all the way. the glass pad has such a beautiful sound.
plus i am a clutz with the tap to click and end up clicking when i don't mean to. :)

[99MustangGTman]

click man

[Patriks7]

Ever since I got my WhiteBook I used tap to click. I just find it so much easier. Only time I actually click is when I'm selecting multiple files and don't want to click the wrong ones :p

[air-ick]

I rarely use the click on my macbook. I have everything setup for tap. Tap to click and 2 finger tap for alternate click.

Eric

[petermcphee]

I don't click much on my MB. I am more of a tap to click kind of guy. This is probably a habit I brought with me as I migrated from a PC laptop to the MB.

[acfusion29]

I used to hate tap to click cause I would accidentally click stuff and it would be extremely annoying... BUT THEN I got the Alu. MB. While in class, I would click with this damn thing but it was so damn loud so I just gave tapping a try and I fell in love, literally :cool:

[rdowns]

Where's the poll?

Pole FAIL! ;):D

[NewMacbookPlz]

I've always used tap-to-click, ever since my dad's old Thinkpad with the passive LCD screen, haha

[winterymix]

Another tap-to-click person here. It's so accurate on the new alum MacBook's touchpad.

[Primejimbo]

I use to use only the click and my wife likes the tap to click, so for fun I tried it and told my self that I'll try if for a week, and I haven't gone back.

[Vikinguy]

I am actually annoyed when I have to reach down so far to click on my friend's macbook white. Laziest thing of all time.

[freeman727]

Clicking makes my forearm tired after a tough workout. Tapping is much easier :p

[paolo-]

Wow, you guys make me feel like a weirdo, I use both quite equally. I think I subconsciously minimize my finger movements... or maybe I just find one more appropriate depending on the situation :S dunno.

[sine-nomine]

I use tap-click when I need to just click something, but when I'm selecting a bunch of files or dragging them where I need them, I use the actual click since it doesn't let you do that with tap-click (unless my machine is just weird).

[Loccy]

Real men click. :D

I have never got on with tap to click, and was actually put off of the Alu MBs for ages before someone pointed out to me that they do actually have a "button". Now I find it difficult to go back to any other laptop's trackpad.

[sergiuria]

I used to hate tap to click.
I now use both equally, I mean, I have no preference. And I love the two finger scrolling

[SFStateStudent]

One tap; two taps, I don't like the button on my MBAir or MBP...:eek:

[OllyW]

Mostly clicking with the occasional tap.

[VSMacOne]

tap to click all the way baby!!!

I use tap-click when I need to just click something, but when I'm selecting a bunch of files or dragging them where I need them, I use the actual click since it doesn't let you do that with tap-click (unless my machine is just weird).

your machine is just weird :p mine does that just fine!

[tubbymac]

I was a clicker on windows and now I'm a tapper on OSX :) Tap to click + multitouch gestures = the way it should be done!

[DeusInvictus7]

I was a clicker on windows and now I'm a tapper on OSX :) Tap to click + multitouch gestures = the way it should be done!

EXACTLY! :D

[Benguitar]

Click-to-Click

My Black MacBook has the option of tap-to-click and I have used it before, but I love the feeling of *click* when I use the click-to-click. ;)

[sine-nomine]

tap to click all the way baby!!!



your machine is just weird :p mine does that just fine!

lol, just my luck. So just to be clear, I should be able to just put my thumb say on the trackpad without clicking it and then use my other fingers to select test or files or whatnot? I do not need to physically click the pad with my thumb to make that happen? I was surprised when I first got this machine that it DIDN'T work this way, what with it being all multi-touchy, but it definitely doesn't. :/

[sporadicMotion]

Click for selection. Tap for everything else.

[Chase R]

I only "click" for drags... Everything else I tap-to-click. It's just so easy and I swear the trackpad knows when you want to click and when you don't haha... it's amazing. Tap-to-click works much better (more accurate) on this laptop versus my Dell.

Plus click-to-click is damn annoying... it's so loud, and the trackpad is really only good for clicking in the lower half since it's just on a hinge.

[Oh-es-Ten]

I only "click" for drags... Everything else I tap-to-click.

Yup - me too...now. I was never a tap-to-click person before I got my unibody Macbook last week. I actually think it works so much better on this machine than any previous one.

After using the Multi-touch gestures though, everything else seems like an antique... using the Macs in the office is now like stepping back in time... Sigh...

Who thinks that they made the new trackpad physical click so loud that it would get people to switch to 'tap-to-click' so they could get rid of the button as well in future? Conspiracy? ;)

[yoppie]

I just turned "tap to click" on in my Core Duo MacBook to see what everyone is talking about. Pretty neat but I think my MacBook's trackpad is too small to really enjoy it. I'm going back to "click to click".

I'll probably try it again if/when I upgrade.

[Heimlich]

Who thinks that they made the new trackpad physical click so loud that it would get people to switch to 'tap-to-click' so they could get rid of the button as well in future? Conspiracy? ;)

Uh oh.. Apple is coming to your house. Better bolt the door. They're gonna tie you up and choke you .. with apples

[themoonisdown09]

I always click-to-click. I hate the tapping option because too many times I've click when I didn't want to.

[iMacmatician]

Click to click. Tap to click is just too unreliable for me. I keep clicking when I don't want to. And it's even worse when selecting multiple items etc.

It's just like the setting where the trackpad automatically releases a drag after a moment of inactivity, but not as bad.

[scubasteve03]

I have the new AluMB with the glass trackpad. At least with my trackpad, its insanely hard to click anywhere on the trackpad. You have to push so hard on it that I end up clicking somewhere else accidently.I tried for the first few months and I just got tired of having to push so hard. I know that it is possible to adjust the hardness of the click. But what is easier, opening up your case and possibly voiding the warranty or turning the tap to click on? Like the other guy said, the tap to click is very precise on the glass trackpad. Does anyone else have this problem with the glass trackpad or am I some type of freak?

[themoonisdown09]

I have the new AluMB with the glass trackpad. At least with my trackpad, its insanely hard to click anywhere on the trackpad. I tried for the first few months and I just got tired of having to push so hard. Like the other guy said, the tap to click is very precise on the glass trackpad. Does anyone else have this problem with the glass trackpad or am some type of freak?

My in-laws have the new Macbook and I've always used the trackpad like it still had a button on the bottom. I click down towards the bottom of the trackpad rather than just anywhere. I haven't had a problem with it yet.

[arthursiew]

I like tap to click better. It's much more quiet.