Macbook Pro Erratic touchpad

OK, this is my first thread here.

Well, I recently got a Macbook pro for Christmas, but recently I have been having issues with the trackpad. Sometimes after coming out of sleepmode I find that the touchpad is very unresponsive. It seems to be linked with Airport, as when I turn it off, it sometimes stops.

One thing, it's not just limited to the touchpad. This issue is also present when using the keyboard, or a USB mouse. It seems to be a general USB mouse. I have called Apple tech support, and they gave me a support number or something. They said they would email me some articles, but I have yet to receive them.

The only USB devices I have used are my iPod, my USB mouse and my PODxt.

Any ideas? I've considered emailing sJobs@mac.com.

PhatBoyG said:

I've experienced this since Leopard and it only does it while the Airport is trying to find an access point. Once it finds one, the behavior goes away.

Not perfect, but I would imagine they are trying to address it in a future update.

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Yeah. Sounds about right. I was worried my POD had blown out my USB or something.

It's no major issue, so I'll wait for 10.5.2.

Swift Sketcher said:

Yeah, I had the exact same problem too. I had the istat widget installed, and that turned out to be the problem. Removing it solved it all =)

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Ah. Well, I have iStat.. I will remove it.

Could SMCfancontrol be related? It's just my Macbook can get really hot running Photoshop and Logic.