Opinions: Who thinks the MB touch pad is too big?

[ivesjd]

Just wondering how many people there are like me, that think the touch pad on the MacBook (not Pro) is just way to big. At least for a 13.3" laptop.

[pveith]

I got as we german say "wurstfinger" (roughly translates to fingers like sausages) so i really like the big touch pad. i had serveral laptops with smaller touch pads and i like the macbook best...

[ryan86corolla]

i find myself often using only a fraction of it without realizing, but i don't think it's too big. the extra space that might be saved with a smaller trackpad would just be wasted surface anyway.

[Dirk.R.Gently]

It's friggin' huge, lol, it's almost like a mini-wacom-table.

[kstrike]

I never realized how big it really was until I went to use my brother's laptop and was like wtf is this tiny thing?

[Chrisj303]

I really like the Macbooks touchpad - in fact when i now use a PC laptop the first thing i think is "this touchpad sucks!"..

It would be of no benefit that i can see to have a smaller pad on the MB.

[cyberdork33]

I really like the Macbooks touchpad - in fact when i now use a PC laptop the first thing i think is "this touchpad sucks!"..

It would be of no benefit that i can see to have a smaller pad on the MB.

I think it is better for 2-finger tapping, scrolling, etc. Most PCs don't expect the user to do such things.

[russo.mic]

I've got no issues with the bigger touchpad, but i do notice now when I use smaller PC touchpads.

[luisbg]

I think it's fine, specially the widescreen ratio that makes sense for a widescreen laptop. Haven't seen that much in pc computers.

Anyway, I could understand being too small being annoying, but being too big? The keyboard is going to leave the same free space anyway.

luisbg

[Quillz]

The size seems alright to me...

[ronocdh]

I think it's fine, specially the widescreen ratio that makes sense for a widescreen laptop. Haven't seen that much in pc computers.

Anyway, I could understand being too small being annoying, but being too big? The keyboard is going to leave the same free space anyway.

luisbg
Glad someone said it. I think this is really, really important, in a typically Apple intuitive way. The physical interface should mirror the virtual when there's a physical paradigm as foundation. It doesn't make sense to have different rates of cursor movement vertically and horizontally, and I would think that'd be necessary to use a regular ratio touchpad in conjunction with a widescreen monitor. Anything else would drive me insane.

Also, in Linux I use three-finger tap as a middle click, and this is much easier on a wider pad. Same with two-finger scrolling (which you don't see a lot of Acer fans doing!).

[vh1]

I've never had any concern regarding the size. as others have mentioned, it's perfect for the size of the laptops

Also, in Linux I use three-finger tap as a middle click, and this is much easier on a wider pad. Same with two-finger scrolling (which you don't see a lot of Acer fans doing!).

my one problem with this is how sensitive the vertical and horizontal scrolling are. often when I try to right or middle click with two or three fingers I find myself triggering the scroll

[ronocdh]

I've never had any concern regarding the size. as others have mentioned, it's perfect for the size of the laptops



my one problem with this is how sensitive the vertical and horizontal scrolling are. often when I try to right or middle click with two or three fingers I find myself triggering the scroll
At risk of sounding OT, I'll say that I haven't found good two-finger scrolling in Ubuntu yet; that feature is my most sorely missed feature when I'm outside OS X! I can't even get edge scrolling to work satisfactorily....