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MacBook Users Fix Trackpad Problem with Origami Paper

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the unfolding-answers dept.

yonnage writes "Some Apple MacBook owners are plagued with what seems to be a defective trackpad button. The button, when pushed, seems "squishy" and sometimes even unresponsive. While these MacBook owners are getting turned away at the Apple Genius Bars, they have come up with a custom and unique solution to the problem. A piece of paper, placed strategically under the battery pack where the trackpad is located, seems to fix this problem for most users."

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  1. Why did apple have to call it a Macbook? by fermion · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    I think one good thing that Apple did was separate their consumer and pro lines of computers. You could have a PowerMac or an iMac. You could have a Powerbook or an iBook. The later would be cheaper machines, partly because of cheaper components, but also a reduction in style and quality of the "non essential" materials, like the case and the handling. It was understood that an iBook was not a Powerbook, and though many people bitched, the compromise was a mac for $1000, educational pricing.

    So I think Apple is screwing themselves by combining the consumer and pro brand into 'MacBook'. All the quality problems, which are to be expected for a machine that is designed to a low pricepoint, are going to infect the pro line. We even see this with the iPod. The Nano, which was clearly designed to cheap and accessible, does not have the ruggedness of the original machines. I would like to see even more differentiation in brand so we don't have all the headline 'MacBook is a piece of crap, Apple doesn't support.'

    This is another reason to hope that we have a creative *nix laptop in the next few years, a fully intergrated solution, not just hacked together like most of the MS and x86 stuff is. Perhaps Sun will become the new boutique of useful computing.

    --
    "She's a scientist and a lesbian. She's not going to let it slide." Orphan Black
  2. Re:Useless tricks become useful by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm telling you, guys would do origami and have macs give the best head. Must be all that attention to detail and all that extra saliva (slobbering from being an Apple fanboi)

    I'm calling dibs on freemywrld!

    So what's your address? :)

  3. Re:Could work, but for how long? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Duct tape can repair marriages.

  4. Re:Could work, but for how long? by Cpt_Kirks · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How, by covering her mouth?