Trackpad not responsive

I have the same problem. This is what usually happens: I wake the MacBook from sleep and what normally takes a single click takes me clicking several times. After a few minutes, the issues seems to resolve itself. This is happening now every time. Very annoying.

I have what I think is the same issue. It seems to me like it's some sort of software issue, due to it's intermittent nature. My problem is that the trackpad becomes completely unresponsive for about 20 seconds or more and then starts working again when it's ready.

I have the same problem.The trackpad will freeze and I can't move the cursor for about 30 seconds.Has anybody had this problem and got it to stop? It is very frustrating when surfing the net.Thanks for any help.

Same here. There seems to be the same problem with the new Macbook Unibody like with the old (new) Macbook Aluminium. The old one got an softwareupdate that is still to be found on apple's homepage but there is still no help for the new macbook. As threads with the same problem become more frequent apple might react sometime.

KJ.

p.s.: This is the update I am talking about.

http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/apple/firmware_hardware/macbookmacbookprot rackpadfirmwareupdate10.html

I'm having the exact same problems in the last few days since the superdrive or EFI firmware update I believe. No amount of messing with the double click speed or tracking speed seems to help, as other threads have suggested.

I've tried to disable all the input manager extensions I have: multiclutch, SIMBL, SAFT, Typeit4me, but doesn't seem to help, and neither did a reboot.

Please help apple! this is truly aggravating and with the number of complainers in other threads (strangely marked "resolved" despite not clear resolution), obviously not an isolated issue.

Same problem here. The actual clicking was sometimes working in the beginning but now does not. Multitouch works fine. Please fix it!

I'm having the same problem. I bought a new unibody, had no similar problem on my last MBP. I sometimes touch a spot on the screen, and the trackpad doesn't recognize the touch. Sometimes it takes three or four times for me to touch the spot before I get to where I want to be.

Between this issue and the problem I'm having with Internet speed on my new machine (the old was no problem in this area), I'm regretting having bought the new machine. And this is 200+ days since the new MPB was released. I don't understand the problems I'm having at all. If anyone has a fix to the trackpad problem, please post!

Not much to add other than: same problem here.

Im also having same problem, all other finger movements work, and i turned on One-finger click to kind of get around it, click will work intermittenly. I talked to apple, they sent me the link for the update, but that is for old (2008) models, so it will not install on my computer (not sure why they would not know that) anyhow, i will try them back tomorrow when they are opn and i'll respond back here if i get any useful info.

Likewise, my macbook pro's trackpad got a delayed response - any fix to this?

Its getting rather frustrating.

Same exact problem here. Long time Mac user here who upgraded from a 12" PowerBook (aluminum) to a 2.26 GHz MacBook (unibody). Just received the MacBook yesterday and I noticed that the trackpad doesn't respond sometimes. My problem isn't related to clicking, but just moving the cursor around on the screen itself.

In my experience it seems to be related to CPU usage. For example when I try to quickly open every single application in my Dock (or Safari loads up a large website), the cursor will completely freeze up during loading. As a test I've disabled hard drive spindown/sleep mode so that the MacBook runs at the theoretical highest speed... and it still happens.

Unfortunately, as someone already mentioned, it is an intermittent problem which can't always be reproduced 100% of the time. It is however annoying enough to make daily tasks frustrating. It looks like I'll have to take it into the nearest retail store to have it checked out.

Genius at the Apple Store ran some Terminal commands to max out the CPU and I can confirm that it's not related to CPU usage. Unfortunately he couldn't reproduce the problem (of course) so I guess I'm stuck with this for now...

Same issue here. The hard, trackpad moving click no longer works at all.

I'm using "Tap to Click" now, or I wouldn't have any clicking from the trackpad at all. Secondary click inaccessible; I have to use Control-Tap to "right-click" like I'm back using my iBook G4. Even with tap-dragging turned on, I have the dangest time dragging windows, so this is getting awfully annoying. Turning off Tap to Click was a big mistake. If I hadn't turned on keyboard access earlier, I'm not sure how I would have been able to reclick the checkbox.

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