While you can customize many gestures with the Magic Trackpad, it pales in comparison to a dedicated mouse. If your work involves graphic designing, video editing, or any task where you need to use your pointing device a lot, the Magic Trackpad is not your best bet. Since your wrist will rest near the bottom edge of the Magic Trackpad, you'll feel the fatigue kicking in during extended sessions. It simply does not have the ergonomic support for your palm as a mouse does. However, all you're doing is running your fingers across a plain surface.
Trackpad magic mac#
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.The Magic Trackpad is flawless for casual web browsing since it involves a lot of scrolling. 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. This, for me, would be the perfect aluminium keyboard: 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.
Trackpad magic Bluetooth#
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.
Trackpad magic pro#
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. EDIT: Summary of my answer: It does not perform very well as a replacement for a mouse.
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