MacBook Users Fix Trackpad Problem with Origami Paper

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."

Comments

Re:First Generation

[pomo monster]

That's because you, like most PC users, are not very demanding.

Blame the Jews

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes, but in Europe you can always blame the Jews for your problems.

France, Anti-Semetic and proud.

Re:stupid Macbook tricks make frontpage?

[mjwx]

What do you mean by recently? Woz didnt leave apple recently.

Mac's have always produced low quality, hardware and software at inflated prices.

Re:First Generation

[binary paladin]

That's because no one cares. And frankly, pre-OS X no one around here cared about Apple either. Say hello to a polarized topic.

I don't even buy first generation cars. First generation everything has kinks.

Re:Why all the blogging?

[pomo monster]

I was tired and was facing a three hour drive home...

The rest of your story is much more believable in this context. It's unwritten Apple policy to discourage red-state rednecks like you from buying Macs and thus polluting our userbase with dimwits and dweebs. See, if you Republicans were to start flooding the platform, our favorite applications would begin losing their distinctive Mac character and flair. That's why most of us longtime Mac users fully support this disincentive. Go back to Utah, hick.

Re:OMFGPONIEZ!!! Apple laptops have problems ?!

[mjwx]

Apple's world wide market share is 4% (OK 5% in the US but I'm not in the US) and that makes them pretty irrelevant to anyone except a graphic designer even if you try to squeeze an extra percent or two in there.

The market contains thousands of hardware vendors selling x86 or compatible (AMD64 for example) products, which would just happen to put them in the same group (they are interoperable with other vendors).

Earth to pawzle, there are more Intel PC's then there are Intel Mac's. You have more functionality in a PC, they are cheaper, more customizable and run more functional OS's (if the last point is true for a Mac, it is merely an expensive hardware platform).

the "br" tag (which stands for breaking return) helps to separate ideas.

I don't want to crucify Mac's, As a network administrator that has to deal with these horrible machines. I would much rather launch them into space (a "Mac Driver" if you will), barring that a simple bonfire will suffice.

Re:First Generation

[pomo monster]

Weird, there were no first generation kinks with my Dell Inspiron.

I've got news for you: Nothing in your Inspiron is first-generation technology. Everything Dell churns out was done to death over and over long before Dell got its filthy PC fingers anywhere near.

I'm glad you recognize that people like yourself should stay on the platform that best meets their needs. As an unoriginal thinker, Windows is much more closely tailored to your lifestyle and work habits. (Linux, too.)

Re:Not sure what it means

[pomo monster]

No, Mac users are just blessed with greater creativity. You'd never see a PC user come up with this kind of solution. Don't believe me? IBM's been building motion sensors into their ThinkPads for years, but it took a Mac user to make it sing. Further examples abound.

In other words, PC users contribute nothing to humanity beyond mechanical number-crunching and associated squareness. It's the Mac users of the world without whom all would be indistinguishable grey.