Hi,
I saved up and bought myself a Macbook Pro Retina 2.2ghz/16GB/256GB a couple of weeks ago and I love it, apart from the trackpad.
After much reading, I have almost managed to get the trackpad working something like a Windows one, I know, it's a Mac. I have enabled double tap to click in the trackpad options and after more reading, I found the settings in Accessability to enable dragging. In those same settings, there is the "With Drag Lock" and "without Drag Lock"...with drag lock works exactly as you'd expect, you can drag stuff around and it stays stuck to the cursor until you click again. I need it without drag lock, but when that setting is enabled, the draglock still engages for a split second, meaning that if you are working quickly, you have to remember to either pause for a split second or you end up dragging the files to the wrong place. To recap, draglock off = draglock still on a bit.
I spoke to Apple and they were not aware of the problem and they tested out a Macbook they they had there and confirmed that it did the same thing, and because of that, it would be classed as "expected behaviour".
I bought the laptop to use with Traktor and Ableton and while I can just about live with Traktor, Ableton is not usable like this for me. I can do the physical hold down of the trackpad with one hand and use another finger to scroll, but I would like the trackpad to work properly...even an app to fix it would be good, but as it stands, I'm going to have to return it and get something else unless I can come up with a fix.
Does anyone have any idea how I could fix it, or maybe an app or something that might help?
I've tried better touch tool, jitouch 2 and a couple of others that I can't remember the name of, but they focus more on extra gestures, I'm looking to not use gestures if at all possible.
P.S. 3 finger drag and drop works, but I have large hands and it just doesn't work. I've also tried the 3 finger drag with inertia and that is ok for up and down dragging in finder, but horizontal dragging doesn't work well.
Thanks in advance
I saved up and bought myself a Macbook Pro Retina 2.2ghz/16GB/256GB a couple of weeks ago and I love it, apart from the trackpad.
After much reading, I have almost managed to get the trackpad working something like a Windows one, I know, it's a Mac. I have enabled double tap to click in the trackpad options and after more reading, I found the settings in Accessability to enable dragging. In those same settings, there is the "With Drag Lock" and "without Drag Lock"...with drag lock works exactly as you'd expect, you can drag stuff around and it stays stuck to the cursor until you click again. I need it without drag lock, but when that setting is enabled, the draglock still engages for a split second, meaning that if you are working quickly, you have to remember to either pause for a split second or you end up dragging the files to the wrong place. To recap, draglock off = draglock still on a bit.
I spoke to Apple and they were not aware of the problem and they tested out a Macbook they they had there and confirmed that it did the same thing, and because of that, it would be classed as "expected behaviour".
I bought the laptop to use with Traktor and Ableton and while I can just about live with Traktor, Ableton is not usable like this for me. I can do the physical hold down of the trackpad with one hand and use another finger to scroll, but I would like the trackpad to work properly...even an app to fix it would be good, but as it stands, I'm going to have to return it and get something else unless I can come up with a fix.
Does anyone have any idea how I could fix it, or maybe an app or something that might help?
I've tried better touch tool, jitouch 2 and a couple of others that I can't remember the name of, but they focus more on extra gestures, I'm looking to not use gestures if at all possible.
P.S. 3 finger drag and drop works, but I have large hands and it just doesn't work. I've also tried the 3 finger drag with inertia and that is ok for up and down dragging in finder, but horizontal dragging doesn't work well.
Thanks in advance