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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. Could work, but for how long? by IntelliAdmin · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Looks like the solution is to fold up a piece of paper, and put it under the actual mouse button. This might work for a little while, but it is a laptop. I can see this paper falling in some other part of the laptop, like say a fan or a hot battery - and you will have a more interesting problem of fire, or CPU death.

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    1. Re:Could work, but for how long? by KiloByte · · Score: 5, Funny
      the paper is held in a small circular indent above the battery

      I wouldn't trust "circular indents" in a tossed about laptop. And what's the solution?

      The force that holds the Universe together.

      Duct tape.

      (well, well, I would actually use some crappy adhesive tape instead of the spacecraft-grade variety, but you got the idea)

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      The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
  2. Paper Over Hot Battery? by PRC+Banker · · Score: 5, Informative

    Paper over hot battery? Fire risk?

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    1. Re:Paper Over Hot Battery? by gardyloo · · Score: 5, Funny

      No way. Rock crushes hot battery. Good ol' rock. Nothin' beats that.

    2. Re:Paper Over Hot Battery? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      If your battery runs hot at 451F I think you're going to have problems either way.

  3. stupid Macbook tricks make frontpage? by Doppler00 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why is it that a silly trick like this makes front page of slashdot? If I submitted a blog article of how I used a toothpick to fix the mousebutton on a generic ACME brand laptop would anyone give a care?

    Same thing with this whole "discoloration" thing about the palm rests. People, laptops are machines, they wear out, they have flaws. It's like some people get so emotionally attached to their computer that if they see one flaw with it they have to write an article about it.

    1. Re:stupid Macbook tricks make frontpage? by ArbitraryConstant · · Score: 5, Insightful

      "The somewhat recent changes to Apple's hardware quality are surprising considering the past obsessiveness with getting the design right."

      Tell that to my G3 iBook and its 6 logic boards.

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  4. Not sure what it means by eyrieowl · · Score: 5, Insightful

    but the volume of posts I see on Slashdot and Digg about fixes for various MacBook problems both astound and amuse me. I could write it off as very poor quality control on Apple's part...and there may be something to that, but I wonder to what degree the Apple users are being more picky than the average bear.... I, for one, can't imagine buying, say, a Dell laptop and getting at all exercised about the clicky-ness of its buttons. But here we have evidence that not only has it bothered many MacBook owners, but one of them was so concerned that he gave it the thought to come up with a completely unusual solution to the problem. So...was the quality control really THAT bad? or are people just being very sensitive?

  5. That's the evidence by Advocadus+Diaboli · · Score: 5, Funny

    that even with computers you will never have a "paperless office". :-)