Just bought a new MacPro. So far, horrendous. Does the touchpad not have a right click left click feature?
As per title of post
MacBook Pro with Retina display
I suggest you take it back to Apple and ask them to fix it for you.
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http://help.apple.com/machelp/mac/10.11/#/mchlp1226
Secondary click: Select the option, then choose “Click with two fingers,” “Click in bottom right corner,” or “Click in bottom left corner” to secondary (or Control) click items on your screen.
Thanks. I tried that. But my expectation was that when I 'right' click I'll get some options like 'copy' or 'paste' but none of that seems to come up.
Your expectations here and in this other post Why does the scroll down bar appear sometimes and other times it dissappears? Never had a similar issue with Android. would indicate that you may benefit from a Mac tutorial. https://www.apple.com/support/macbasics/
Thanks. I will check that out but I was expecting Apple to be more intuitive, user friendly and straight out of the box functional. It seems that two fingers are needed where Android only needs one. Apparently to make the touchpad work like a mouse you need to click the left corner once for a left click and hit control and right corner for a right click? And to make the scroll bar appear you have to activate it rather than it just being there.
niallfromcapetown wrote:
Thanks. I will check that out but I was expecting Apple to be more intuitive, user friendly and straight out of the box functional. It seems that two fingers are needed where Android only needs one. Apparently to make the touchpad work like a mouse you need to click the left corner once for a left click and hit control and right corner for a right click? And to make the scroll bar appear you have to activate it rather than it just being there.
Why do you keep referring to Android? Android is a mobile device OS, your MacBook Pro is a computer running OSx. If you want to compare Your computer's OS to another OS running on a computer Windows 10 would be a better comparison. But making the comparison is illogical since each runs on different hardware and provides different capabilities.
Okay, sorry, Windows. Trying to adjust to a whole world of new language, terminology etc. Years and years of Windows familiarity - Apple feeling very Alien right now. Lap top looks lovely, came in a lovely box, no issue with the corporate design side, but struggling to make sense of basic little niggly differences that don't seem to make sense. Surely the natural default setting for the touch pad would be a straightforward right click, left click set up. My main struggle is getting Garageband 5.1. I would have thought it was a simple, click, download and play process as the version that came with this lap top won't play version 5.1 files.
niallfromcapetown wrote:
My main struggle is getting Garageband 5.1. I would have thought it was a simple, click, download and play process as the version that came with this lap top won't play version 5.1 files.
I suggest, if you have not done so already, that you ask about that in the forum for that app:
niallfromcapetown wrote:
Apparently to make the touchpad work like a mouse you need to click the left corner once for a left click and hit control and right corner for a right click? And to make the scroll bar appear you have to activate it rather than it just being there.
Apple mice are not the same as Windows mice, so things have always been different than what you are used to. See
For scroll bars options, see
Just bought a new MacPro. So far, horrendous. Does the touchpad not have a right click left click feature?