Trackpad very slow and unresponsive on C2D MBP

Has anyone got any further with this issue? Any responce from Apple? This is by turns annoyiong and embarasing "You spent $2600 on a laptop and the track pad is not fixable!?"

I've handed mine in for service, and hopefully they'll read this thread (I provided the link), however, they won't be getting to my MBP until next Tuesday at the earliest.

If they find anything out I'll be sure to let you guys know.

Have you tried just calling up Apple again and demanding a replacement?

I followed the suggestion of one of the people who replied to this thread and my curser stopped freezing up completely for 4-5 seconds. Before I unchecked the box in the trackpad preference box to "ignore accidental trackpad input" The Mac would ignore absolutely deliberate input, much less "accidental" input from the trackpad.

Now the Mac is behaving itself and I'm hoping this was all it took to drive the evil demons out of the new MBP.

MacBookPro C2D Mac OS X (10.4.8) 15" 2GB 2.33GHz

I have checked and unchecked the ignore accidnnetal trackpad input but the trak pad still intermittnly freezes. It's as if the trackpad process was niced down to below anything else = as long as the machine is only respondoing to my trackpad input all is fine - but if I do anything at all there is a refractory peroud where it freezes. UUUUGh!

I have had the same problem with my trackpad.... BUT it had only happened when I have been stupid enough to rest more than one finger on it (while trying to move the cursor)


I am not for one minute prosuming that you are stupid like me, but it is quite an easy mistake to make, when you consider how much bigger the MBP's trackpad is compaired to the Powerbook.

Maybe a bit of finger training is the only thing needed?

If not, wait for an update or try the many suggestions before putting yourself through the return process...

I figured that was the problem as well after a while, however, since then it's happened many times when I made sure I was only using one hand near the trackpad, and with the finger extended straight down so it couldn't be another part of my hand. The video is another example, the letter A is quite far away from the trackpad, and I attacked it from the side 😝

You guys should check it though, the widescreen trackpad does make for some really easy accidental input if you're using the keyboard.

Same problem. Takes 5 seconds or so to jolt the trackpad/cursor function awake. Seems to randomly crap out on me when idle.

To be fair, that isn't the same problem 😉

The problem isn't that it freezes when not in use, it's when it freezes when IN use 😝

Also, computer will not wake up from sleep if I put it to sleep by closing the lid. Must do a hard power down/reset.

I changed my setting to conform to this message and it cleared up my non-responsive curser immediately. That was over a week ago and it has not resurfaced ever again.

Thank you for the help.

Now, I have to figure out what's going on with my Mac Pro often not waking up from sleep without needing to be restarted.

MacBookPro C2D Mac OS X (10.4.8) 15" 2GB 2.33GHz

I took my MBP into the local apple shop and thye had just disscovered the same trackpad/cursor proplem in one of their machines. I am waiting till they solve it and will take mine in and hopefully that wil be the end of it. I'll post what happens here.

I'm having the same problem...cursor 'freezes' for a few seconds. I have problems finding my cursor too so I think for a time it's invisible. I thought at first that it was because of the higher resolution and that the cursor is smaller and I can't find it, but I'm now inclined to think that it's really not there at all until the few seconds lapses where it "wakes up".

Haven't really noticed a pattern but I know it exists in switching webpages in safari and in the finder when opening files from a list view.

I took it to my closest Apple Store. The genius there had never head of the problem (and of course it didn't do it there) but he did a "install and archive" of the system software. It didn't fix the problem. This is my 3rd Apple laptop and this is annoying to the extreme.

Update: I "unchecked" the "ignore accidental..." in the trackpad system preference and the problem stopped. I just read this reponse from Apple which was posted early on in this thread. It worked for me. Wish I had read it earlier...I would have saved me a 5 hr. roundtrip to the Apple Store.


http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304052

I can't believe it, I must have missed a paragraph or something when I read it before. It seems like that's definitely the issue. I wasn't aware that you had to use the center of the trackpad to "unfreeze" the cursor. I may have been using the right side of the trackpad and so not gotten into contact with the correct area.

Man I'm annoyed at myself right now. I'll run by the service center and get it back tomorrow.