New MacBook 2.4 - Erratic Trackpad

I've had the 'click not registering' and have now had my MacBook replaced a SECOND time by my local Apple Store...so I'm on MacBook #3.

So far so good, but the problem is of course erratic, so only time will tell.

I will keep you posted.

My machine is exhibiting the similar issues. Although the only thing I find odd/disconcerting, is the two finger scroll. Its gone. Three finger gestures and four finger work fine, just not two finger.

I figured repairing permissions and maybe a diskwarrior directory rebuild might help. But the new Macbooks/MBP's can't be booted with 4.1.1 DW. sigh

Love the machine, wish I would have done a little more homework...

Good Afternoon,
I assume Apple will fix this issue at some point soon, as it appears to be pretty widespread.

For now, I'm just glad I waited before buying one of these! Good thing for this forum.

If anyone hears about a fix from Apple, please post about it. At that point, I will definitely buy one of these laptops.

Thanks,
Matt

grrrr same for me, very sticky sometime, just doesnt move or click out of the point i went to go, sorry for my terrible english!i went back to my old MacBookPro

After some more digging.

I created a new account on my new Macbook, and the new user regains full functionality of the trackpad.

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say the trackpad preferences file has gotten corrupt. (At least in my instance.) I only am suffering from lack of a two-finger scroll function. The other two finger actions zoom, and rotate are unaffected. As well as the three and four finger gestures.
Scrolling would be really nice.

What is the preferences file for the trackpad? I want to copy it over from my test user account, to my main user account, log out, log in, and see what happens.

Aha!

I copied /Users/test/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist
to /Users/me/Library/Preferences/./

do as root, or use sudo

Trackpad scroll restored! Might likely fix other weird trackpad issues too. (Not to mention mess up a whole lot of other settings).

I have the exact same problem, brand new MacBook - I am a new user so I dismissed it as me trying to learn how to use the Mac, but my cursor just vanishes and becomes unresponsive for a few seconds completely randomly. I have to fiddle with the trackpad to bring it back.

I am glad it isn't me.

I noticed that if you don't lift up your finger after clicking it will not register the next click. So my guess is every once and a while people are leaving there finger on the track pad and then that click is not registered. I use the tap to click and that works great.

I received my macbook today, from Apple Online Store, and I'm already having trouble with unresponsive trackpad. Sometimes it doesn't respond to a click.

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Has ever tried changing to "tap to click" ?

It's a work around, but it's great for me. I don't feel like going back to pressing the trackpad down anymore.

For people using iPhone the experience will be very similar and you won't feel awkward doing it.

Software fix coming soon.

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/11/05/applereadying_software_patch_for_quirky_macbooktrackpads.html

http://www.macrumors.com/2008/11/05/software-fix-for-macbook-pro-trackpad-issue- coming-soon/

I'm having similar issues with the trackpad on my new MacBook. I hope the forthcoming software patch fixes the problem completely because I love the computer otherwise.

mine seems to be the opposite - the top part is unresponsive - but not all of the time. Like everyone else has been discovering, it's a roll of the dice whether it's going to recognize a click or other motions at all.

ccolaco wrote:
Software fix coming soon.

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/11/05/applereadying_software_patch_for_quirky_macbooktrackpads.html

http://www.macrumors.com/2008/11/05/software-fix-for-macbook-pro-trackpad-issue- coming-soon/

Why doesn't Apple make a more formal announcement of a fix? This is why I am holding back on a purchase. If I knew Apple is really behind a fix, I would buy, but not until then. It's too much of an expenditure for me to not be sure.

Matt

I will add to this post as well. The only time I have trackpad issues is when I boot back into osx after using Windows.

If I always use OSX I don't have any trackpad issues at all, but then again I use tap to click. I have posted this in the bootcamp forum but nobody else seems to have the issue.

The trackpad is fine until the date and time updates (afer using Windows), then the tap to click no longer works, and to open anything I need to use 3 finger click. I go into sytsem preferences, all boxes are ticked, so I have to untick then tick the tap to click again. Very strange behaviour so I hope this "update" will fix that issue as well. Does anybody else have this problem?