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What issues did you decide to just LIVE WITH on your Alu MB?
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At the very top of the trackpad and the upper right and upper left hand corners.
Is it just me or does anyone else have the same issue?
That's normal. About half an inch from the top is where it really starts CLICKING because of the way it's built. If you take your battery out you will notice that at the top of the trackpad there are a few screws that connect it to the body. The rest of the trackpad is free to move when pressed. Makes sense if you think about it...
But how can anybody complain that the WHOLE trackpad is not clicking?! There is a RIDICULOUS increase in trackpad size from the previous gen MB so that in itself is amazing.
sure, the lower half clicks easier, but the very top of my pad clicks as well. I enabled the "touch click" anyways, as I usually use my mac in very quiet places and the click can be rather annoying if used constantly in a quiet library.
Mine is pretty damn flawless. A couple of slightly slanted F keys. I can move my battery cover around ever so slightly but is definitely not loose. Also, the inability to practically click on the higher parts of the trackpad. Mind you I think it's getting better as I use it.
Another odd thing I noticed is that if I push on the top of the computer, near the white illuminated apple logo, the whole top part flexes. I'm curious to know if the computer was designed that way or if mine is wrong. It doesn't bother me much other that the flexing, over time COULD, quite unlikely, lead to failure of the aluminium top.
Oh well, no firewire and 1300 bucks less in pockets are also things I decided I could live with.
Very satisfied with the product.
Another odd thing I noticed is that if I push on the top of the computer, near the white illuminated apple logo, the whole top part flexes. I'm curious to know if the computer was designed that way or if mine is wrong. It doesn't bother me much other that the flexing, over time COULD, quite unlikely, lead to failure of the aluminium top.
Oh well, no firewire and 1300 bucks less in pockets are also things I decided I could live with.
Very satisfied with the product.
The screen sucks in all notebooks anyway, almost per design. If it's a notebook, it's meant to be used off the plug. So, power consumption is an issue. TN is the technology with the lowest power consumption, by far. It's also the cheapest technology.
But, sadly, also the one unable to render proper colors (14 bits color with dithering instead of 16 bits) and it has very poor vertical viewing angles (making color rendition awful however you calibrate it).
I don't know of any notebook with a power hungry IPS pannel or even a (M/P)VA. Notebooks are not meant to do any kind of critical color editing. Likewise, they're not meant to watch movies either - they're too small anyway. So, the only thing that matter with notebook screen is that they're bright enough to be used outdoor, that they use as little power as possible and that you can read what's on them in most situations.