Slow tap-to-click response on trackpad

hi, i have the same problem with the slow response, it´s impossible to work fast with this issue. So i called apple today and some guy tried to give me the impression that apple is working on a software solution. Do you have a knew idea how to speed up the response?

I spent one month to learn how to use touch pad of MBA. Up till now suddenly start a link or open a file I wanted just to drag or other commands I dind't want.

I learnt: one click to sign the file, then to tap with very light pressure, very gently for drag (I always try to move to see if I catched the file) and two double click with a bit heavier pressure to open the file. In the MBA movies in preferences system/ mouse, you can see the example how Apple suggest: one click, then the second click and without raise the finger move it on pad. Another regulation I made was in system preferences / mouse/ make the double click a little faster.

i found the touch pad very interesting, it's similar in new macbooks; I'm enjoing myself to use the fingers commands and now I'm confuse with mouse or old macbook white. It's very interesting the three fingers command to change page in browser, or two finger to grow vision (photo or printed web) etc. etc. I think these fingers commands will be on touch screen in the future, like on iPhone actually.

I noticed too my hand became very tired in short time. It's usual I put a second finger on the pad and start the secondary click or other i don't want. I think to put my left hand under the right wrist, to have a support for wright hand. I had briefly pains, cramps in right hand as I pay too much attention to the mouvements of fingers on the pad. I'm sure when I'll be able I'll be more smooth in the movements.

In Macbook forum, there are very interesting threads about the new touch pad of macbooks. One of them says that if the touch pad is exposed to the sun the mouse became crazy. I think it maybe is because that touch pad is sensible to heat as it knows the touch from heat of finghers?

Thank you for your question. I was feeling a little clumsy myself.

fernando

Dear Chaotic_thought

Maybe I'm misunderstanding your question, as I didn't know triple click feature. You make the example of a triple click for underlining a paragraph.
Now I have the speedy of double click on my pad at 7 position (fast but not the max). I have tried a triple click: one click to position mouse in the paragraph, then click (one-one-one not speedy as double click: one-two speedy). The paragraph is underlined at once, you can try in safari too as I did.
Thank you for learning me this new feature.

I think the pad is waiting our orders. If we activate meny funtions, the pad have to understand what we wont. So, uncheking drag stop, or drag too, the click is istantaneus, very fast. If I check (on mouse preferences) the drag and the drag stop, the pad seems to wait me for the end of my command, waiting the 1-3/4 seconds you noticed.

I noticed this in mighty mouse too in my old macbook white. This seems slower than a kensington mouse. I thought mighty have too many features (left-right click, click on round button, click left and right together, etc.) it seems my macbook good but little slow (1,8 G
Gh, no graphic processor etc.) but with a simplest mouse and cleaning HD, my old macbook is a train very faster (it seems). I thought more features have a mouse o pad and more accurate I must be and a little delay of time to mouse understands my orders.
I'm afraid the new touch pad in new macbooks are more complex with other features too and maybe they are little slower (the pad wait you to understand what you want to do)

I tried your experiments: you are right: to max speedy of double click, is impossible open a file impossible double click. No difference with external mouse. Pay attention: in the mouse preferences, the pad and the mouse have different window: did you set at max speedy both?

Finally: double click speedy 8/11 on pad; all features on (drag and stop);
- one click the little delay you noticed (no problem for me);
- double click (one-two fast) open files;
- double click without rise finger after second click: drag files, then one click to stop;
- triple click slow: one-one- one select all the paragraph as you say.

If triple click you want is a special feature of other particular software, I don't know. If so, you have to try it inside theese software, where maybe the triple click is seen differently.

Excuse me if I misunderstanded your problem and question. Do you want explain better about this triple click, if I'm not annoing you?

Tanks for this interesting thread.

fernando

I'd like to add something. Reading again your first post, maybe now I see your problem: are you annoing waiting the slow monitor show the file selected, after one click?
I agree with you: if working fast with many tasks, this dalay is bad. Looking for a solution for you (and me) I noticed this mistake I do:

1 step: i put arrow mouse over the file;
2 step: I click the file to select it to be sure I'm working with it;
3 step: I give the command (double click or other).

I suggest you (and me) an option faster:

-1 step: put arrow mouse over the file you want;
- ( NO step 2- bypass it);
- 3 step: directly double click (or triple click) over the file without selecting it before: it reacts immediatly

I noticed, with mouse I don't select the file before open it, I put mouse over the file and directly I get the command. Usually I bypass the second step. With touch pad, as I'm not sure about my fingers mouvements, I loose time selecting it first to be sure I'm working with the correct file.

Maybe your problem is in the second step (one click to select the file before), too slow before monitor shows the file selected (and only then, you go on with double click). Maybe it is, as you say, because the pad is waiting for other command from you for 1-3/4 seconds as your set double click speedy (if you set double click slow for example 10 sec (exagerating), the pad wait 10 sec for other click from you before understand and go on .
So, I think you can bypass the second step (select file before) but you can directly double click when mouse over: it opens (or drag) immediatly.

Hope to help you as it will help me. I'v just learned a new feature I didn't know.

thank you

fernando

Same issue here. Tap to drag slows down the response to clicks. When its enabled, the dock behaves erroneously, most of the time showing a contextual menu instead of launching the app I clicked. No luck on the new firmware released 11/17 to fix trackpad related issues.

I have the same issue with the slow tap-to-click response, and it is really annoying. Have installed Apples touchpad firmware update via "software update" but it doesn't seem to do anything to correct the tap-to-click response time. I would say the delay for me seems to be more like 3/4 of a second.

Glad I'm not the only one finding having to pause when triple-tapping annoying. I just bought a MacBook Pro (prev. gen., w/matte screen) and I now have to pause for a second before doing the last tap to select paragraphs and such. What's odd is, I'm coming from a (white) MacBook and triple-taps worked just fine there (yes, with Dragging enabled).

It must have to do with the first implementation of the three-finger swipe hardware. Or does this happen with the GlassBooks as well?

I have the same problem, and 10.5.6 didn't fix it (was hoping it would have some effect). I have to say that I'm quite disappointed with this. The loud clicking noise that the trackpad makes when the "button" is used makes it impossible not to use tap-clicking and dragging.

Come on Apple! Get it sorted (please).

Got the same problem here. There's to much of a delay between tapping and the OS interpreting that tap as a click - please make it configurable and all these discussions (there are many, just Google it) will be a thing of the past.

Regards,
- Jonas

I have the same issue.
When the 'dragging' option is selected, tap response time lags about 1/2 sec.
Disabling this option fixes the issue.

I've installed the trackpad firmware update, 10.5.6, the 2 mac firmware updates...no go on all.

we're going to need another patch for this

Sticky Windows is a third party application. Unless you've downloaded it then ignore what he said... it won't apply to u.

I just discovered the beauty of tap-dragging with the trackpad today.

Unfortunately, I might have to turn it off because single clicks take too long to register (i know it's only like half a second, but it's annoying.)

1/4 second for single click and 3/4 second for double click release