External trackpad prevents clicking

How is that a design flaw? How should Mac OS X know*, which input device should be preferred when clicking? If one devices is in the state of clicking, and you don't want that, disconnect the device. With the Magic Trackpad it is easy, use the Bluetooth Menu Bar icon to either disable Bluetooth or disconnect from the Magic Trackpad or power it off via the power button, you don't seem to use it, especially when it is located on the other side of the room.

* The same goes for those other flawed OSs out there.

 

No your mac does not come with a "cup" holder either

 

My suggestion would be to not have something pressing down on your other device. Seems like a silly waste of battery power to me.

 

Do you expect to get help with that attitude? I guess so too.

But then again, you don't even ****ing know me but assume you do and call me something I am not. Has it occurred to you, that others may not understand why you use your devices like you do (two input devices for one computer - can be normal - but one of those devices several feet away stuck beneath something that puts pressure on it and triggers it)?

Again, show me the consumer OS being able to distinguish between two pointing devices and recognising which devices can be triggered and which cannot, all automatically!

**** that, wank someone else.

PS: Connect two mice to your computer (Linux, Windows, Mac OS X) and hold down the primary click button on one mouse. Does the other mouse still work?

 

My bad then. I don't know how to help you in your case though, if shutting off the second pointing device is not an option.

And yes, I needed to calm down, like the rest of us do too.