How to improve trackpad palm rejection MacBook Pro
How to improve trackpad palm rejection MacBook Pro ?
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10)
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How to improve trackpad palm rejection MacBook Pro ?
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10)
The trackpad size makes the laptop almost unusable as a standalone machine... did apple do user testing with these? I prefer using my 2015 MBP to be honest. Worried about whats going down at apple but still love most of their devices.
This design flaw in OSX (removal of palm rejection logic from trackpad driver for MBP 2016+) is the most egregious example of Apple Hubris To Date. There are hundreds of complaints from users, and yet all that Apple SW engineers seem capable of doing is to quote the company line ... "Sorry, but there is no setting to do that". Obviously! That's because Apple OSX design SW engineers & architects REMOVED that setting from High Sierra and even earlier versions of OSX 10.10 +.
Why remove the palm rejection logic from the trackpad driver?? Why remove useful and even crucial usability design elements? IT DEFIES ANY LOGICAL EXPLANATION!
Here are some illogical but plausible explanations:
(1) Because Apple is so profit motivated, they don't want to test all the features they have previously implemented? [Yes, there has always been pressure from BeanCounters riding herd over System Test at Apple, just like every other SW Dev Lab in the world. That's No Excuse for Lousy Usability in the Keyboard/Touchpad Interface Code!!!!]
(2) Because the enormous size of the MBP trackpad makes it impervious to palm detection? -- No, this too is not plausible. The very large trackpad makes palm rejection logic ABSOLUTELY IMPERATIVE. The Touchpad & Keyboard are essentially Un-Usable without these features. This is a terrible Failure of Apple Quality Assurance! The art and science of Industrial Design has sunk to a new LOW at Apple in Cupertino.
Hi,
Sorry, but there is no setting to do that.
too bad--it's so annoying I'm tempted to get rid of the machine
That's bad, it's becoming a real problem.
I have both a 13-in and 15-in version of the 2017 MBP and am not experiencing this problem.
How to improve trackpad palm rejection MacBook Pro