Comments on: Scott Kelby's Review: Apple's New MacBook Pro (Somebody Get My Gun!)

By: Porl

Porl — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 22:18:31 +0000

I too am just about to go insane in After Effects CS5 with my (until this) dreamy MacBook Pro. I thought it was my skin at first and have been trying to remove my fingerprints to make it work better so I am glad it is not me!

I use an intense amount of shortcuts and multi fingering when I am creating and editing complicated masks and rotoscoping and all that fun stuff and to have my monitor window zoom out to -3000% is beyond comprehension when I have four fingers poised on keys and need the mouse placed EXACTLY on an anchor point.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:05:49 +0000

The trackpad’s uncontrollable zoom is driving me crazy and I am really, really tired of pressing Command-0 while surfing the web.

Perhaps this is just a devious ploy by Apple to sell more of the wireless Might Mouse?

By: Andr�e

Andr�e — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:50:52 +0000

In this case Scott, you are the cause.

It’s multitouch. You can’t just put an additional finger on the pad that you’re not using.

I imagine people with years of experience using normal small (bad) trackpads have habits that run deep in the cortex.

I started fresh and have never had any issues. These new trackpads are heaven on earth. Give them the credit they deserve.

By: Joseph Skelly

Joseph Skelly — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 11:04:35 +0000

Thankfully, Adobe has released a patch to fix this, dated 2/25. See knowledge base article kb408468:
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb408468

By: Jon Innes

Jon Innes — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 19:19:33 +0000

you are absolutely correct this is a major issue. Had they done any usability testing at Adobe or Apple they would have caught this.

I can work with a mouse or tablet at the office, but Photoshop on my shiney new macbook is useless without those input devices. Sad, a highly capable graphics laptop whose arrogant designers failed to actually think about how users will use it.

By: Randall

Randall — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:20:41 +0000

Something that is esp annoying is that you can’t undo a rotation in at least Adobe apps. God forbid you’ve done a heavy edit on an image and then accidently rotate it. I don’t think the trackpad moves show in the history function.

And what is that compass thing [ which usually the harbinger that it's about to some crazy zoom you don't want ]?

By: Julie Strothman

Julie Strothman — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:47:40 +0000

Thank you for your post! I’ve had my mbp for a week and was sure I was just missing a setting. It’s driving me crazy in photoshop. (Though it’s caused me to learn about 20 keyboard shortcuts I hadn’t made the effort to learn.)
“Just use a mouse or tablet” is not sufficient as a solution. I am way too mobile with my machine to always be using a mouse. This is a FAIL and I, too, hope there’s a solution soon.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 18:44:58 +0000

I love the trackpad and the gestures, but have the exact problem you do with the resting thumb and the random zooms. Wish I could turn off zoom and only zoom.

By: Lukas

Lukas — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 12:35:48 +0000

Never wanted to use a trackpad in Adobe software, Allways had a wacom bamboo and dissabled the trackpad as soon as a mouse or other pointing device is present.

By: DJ NEFF

DJ NEFF — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:39:35 +0000

Its glad to know Scott shares my pain. I have so many nice things to say about my macbook pro, so many. Yet it seems to be the smaller things, the “man i just wish this was fixed stuff” that would just put me over the edge into completely drinking the Kool-aid. The screen was just about a deal breaker for me, i miss my firewire 400 port and I am itching for someone to make my trackpad do exactly what i want it to, but i have to admit when i hold it, and use it, it feels better that the previous generation

All the amazingly intuitive features are making my life easier 90 percent of the time. Its just funny sometimes how important or at least how much i notice that small 10 percent that doesn’t work or act as amazingly beautiful as the other 90. And as the saying goes, i must accept the things i cannot change, i just hope apple doesn’t feel the same way. I hope they realize how important their relentless attention to detail will not only continue to inch this technology closer to ultimate perfection, but raise the bar so high for individuals such as myself and for them, to which no matter how utterly awesome my MBP is, i will always want more. I just hope one day I actually get it. First though, I agree with Sir Kelby, lock my background on Photoshop and I’ll be satiated for now.