How do you use your trackpad?

[manosaurus]

Do you prefer, for clicking and dragging, to use the trackpad button or the option for tapping on the trackpad?

I have tried both and I think that I prefer to use the track pad button.

 

[killmoms]

I've never understood people who like tapping on the trackpad. Some of my friends had that on in Windows on their laptops and it'd always mess me up. Give me a physical button any day—that's why I like the click wheel on the iPod better than the touch buttons on my 3rd gen.

 

[gr8tfly]

tap only for click, double-click. no tap-drag. physical button for dragging.

 

[NJuul]

I've turned off tapping on my trackpad.
I constantly click the wrong places with it on.

 

[ero87]

i find clicking on the trackpad unbearable. To each his own, i guess... but there's a real button 2 cm away! You can just click that!

 

[bradbowl]

I always tap the trackpad instead of clicking. It's less work than having to move a finger all the way over to a big button and push it down.

I also use the two finger scroll feature all the time.

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

Cannot stand tapping. Drives me completely insane, always "clicking" without meaning to when I just want to move my finger a bit...

 

[Warbrain]

No tap. Tapping is counter-intuitive. There's no feedback like there is from a button. But I won't be using the trackpad much longer as I just order a wireless mouse for my iBook.

 

[NATO]

Tapping the trackpad for click/double click works best for me. The button's nice but its simpler to me to just tap the spot where I've just moved my finger to.

 

[5150 Joker]

I can't use a trackpad without tapping. Its far more ergonomical to be able to tap and double tap a trackpad then have to shift you finger around and hit a button.

 

[Warbrain]

I can't use a trackpad without tapping. Its far more ergonomical to be able to tap and double tap a trackpad then have to shift you finger around and hit a button.

Shift your finger around? You don't keep your thumb on the button?

 

[DougBTX]

Tracking, tapping, dragging and scrolling for me, hardly use the button.

You don't keep your thumb on the button?

Have never tried that, my thumb is normally a couple of cm further down. I guess it would make right clicking harder if you're used to the double finger tap, not sure it's for me.

Douglas

 

[andrew050703]

Have never tried that, my thumb is normally a couple of cm further down. I guess it would make right clicking harder if you're used to the double finger tap, not sure it's for me.
Douglas

button is easier for me - especially, as you say, for right clicking. if apple can make a click sensitive mighty mouse, it'd be nice to see a right click on the right hand side of the button as well...

 

[xsedrinam]

Cannot stand tapping. Drives me completely insane, always "clicking" without meaning to when I just want to move my finger a bit...

Tap, tap, tap. It takes some getting used to, but I've found it IS intuitive and there are Preference Settings to adjust it.

 

[zac4mac]

I set that same option...

tap, dbl tap, 2 finger scroll and 2 finger right clik. Physical button for drag, 2 finger right clik. Or I use a cordless 3 button travel mouse.

Z

 

[Texas04]

If I need to click I just push the button. If i have it set to where I can tap it just annoys me... I could get used to it but with the no "real" right click feature it just bugs me.

I click to click
two fingers scroll and right click
click to drag

always bugs my friends with windows labtops though.

 

[mick4394]

I use my trackpad for everything. Clicking, dragging, scrolling, you name it, I use the trackpad for it. Hell, if I'm feeling a little crazy, I may even use it to do a little highlighting.

 

[r6girl]

i use the trackpad for single clicks, scrolling, and right-clicks. i also use the button to click occasionally. when dragging and dropping, i always use the button (click and hold), never the trackpad - i think i just like the tactile feel to be sure i'm dropping something exactly where i want it to be...

 

[BiikeMike]

I use my trackpad for tracking and vertical scrolling. I HATE "tap to click" trackpads, and the horizontal scrolling always messes me up for some reason. I do LOVE the two finger scroll thing, whenever i'm on anyone elses laptop, it always screws me up. I try to scroll, and wonder why their computer is broken

As for clicking, give me a physical action ANY day!

 

[tobefirst ⚽️]

tap only for click, double-click. no tap-drag. physical button for dragging.

That's how I do it!

 

[iñaki'sonMac'87]

Love the scroll capability, and even though I did use tap for dobleclick, I guess is better for care the pad, to use the big button below, and to drag things

 

[Ish]

There's another thread about this here:

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/184346/

I always tap; it's the first thing I changed when I got this PB. Had to click through the start up and it drove me crazy.

Don't you find your hand is a bit scrunched up if you keep your thumb on the button while using the track pad?

 

[iBookG4user]

I use my trackpad for two fingered secondary click, scrolling and moving the arrow around. That's it, nothing out of the ordinary.

 

[TallShaffer]

I use the trackpad for scrolling (best feature ever), tracking and right click. Button for anything else.

As for fingers being 'scrunched' while using the button, I use my middle finger to track, drop my ring when I scroll. My thumb/index finger (I change it randomly) is over the button

 

[daneoni]

I'm a happy tapper, in fact clicking annoys me so much i connect an external mouse instead to the notebook if i find myself clicking.