Since the hand often ends up there, and the home/end/pgup/pgwn keys are hardly necessary on a Mac (think Cmd-Left, Cmd-Right, etc), this just makes sense. Unless you are a hardcore "the vim way" user, like me you will often use the cursor keys. I guess it would be just as useful for most other gestures. If that space was used as a trackpad, it would be so convenient to do the swipe gestures for scrolling down webpages. You can use the Accessibility preferences on your Mac to make your Magic Mouse and Trackpad easier to use together. You can connect both a Trackpad and Magic Mouse to your Mac to use them both if you choose to. This, for me, would be the perfect aluminium keyboard: We understand that you'd like to use a Trackpad and Magic Mouse with your Mac. Perhaps it is still a good choice for people who do primarily typing and editing documents. It works better in a few ways, but it can not match the prevision and speed of a mouse.įor a web developer who needs to switch tabs, click small things in the window, toggle the Firebug console and all its panels every now and then, switch between gaezillions of windows it doesn't work. I think the Magic Trackpad is a great idea. Since it was rather cumbersome to try to fit the trackpad in between a large Aluminium keyboard (comes with keypad) and the mouse, I moved the wireless keyboard and magic trackpad back into their boxes :( Typing on the wired aluminium keyboard felt a lot better. Now that is my opinion as well, but I didn't enjoy the wireless keyboard it felt cheap and light compared to the aluminium keyboard. Unfortunately I found I had more strain in the wrist because I needed to move the arm between the trackpad and the mouse, and using a cushion under the arm moving sideways from time to time didn't work well. That way it took approximately the same space as my aluminium keyboard. Since I still felt I needed a mouse, I also unwrapped the bluetooth keyboard that came with the iMac, and put the trackpad next to it. Task switching with the trackpad was always awkward. What I did like on the trackpad, mostly, was the ability to scroll pages in the browser with the double finger swipe. So no, the Magic Trackpad is not a replacement for a mouse, at least not on a 27 inch screen. On a desktop computer, you expect to have more control than on a laptop. Unfortunately, in my opinion, it doesn't translate well on a large screen. Like you, I was very excited when I heard about it, because I had gotten used to the trackpad on a Macbook Pro during a long holiday. I'm not wholly disappointed with it, but on 27 inch iMac, I found it to be significantly slower for pretty much any kind of operations, compared to a mouse. I got into the hype as well, bought it, and eventually put it back into its box and considering selling it on eBay. (I have keyboard shortcuts on the Magic Keyboard so why use the trackpad for “back”?).EDIT: Summary of my answer: It does not perform very well as a replacement for a mouse. This is a useless gesture on a trackpad to me personally and far more dangerous than useful. If your scroll is interpreted as a bit “left” you will go back and lose your entries. Second example: a dynamic webpage you are filling out fields, answering question, or whatever that you must scroll up/down within. If you stray out of the box a tiny bit, you will go “back” in the browser and lose your entries. If you use two fingers, you can scroll within the box up/down and left/right. I constantly lose data entries do to this function I cannot disable.įirst example, many text entry boxes have a box which scrolls left/right instead of allowing resizing or automatic returns. Disable iPadOS Safari trackpad two finger gesture left to go "back" a page I need a way to disable the trackpad two-finger swipe in iPadOS Safari which sends you “back” one page.
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