The MacBook is Back!

A few months back, the trackpad’s button on my MacBook got wedged into the ‘Clicked’ state. I got to thinking about it last night and did some searching. Turns out it’s actually a common issue. What led me to a solution, though, was this article on “squishy” buttons. The solution for that is to wad up some paper and tape it to the underside of the button and let the battery keep it perky. So that got me thinking, and I gave it a “massage.” To my surprise, I felt a dull pop, and it worked!

Sadly, I decided to try the “squishy” fix, and ended up breaking things again. Massaging didn’t help. What did help was pressing down Really Really Real Hard on the button. I jiggled it a bit and felt some grit crumble. Once again it worked. I then followed the advice that others made for a stuck button, which is to slide some paper under the button and hope it brushes things away. Not surprisingly, it cleaned out some gunk. I’m quite happy to have the MacBook back in action. It’s so much nicer typing on a large keyboard and to have a screen with greater than 600 pixels worth of vertical resolution. Additionally, all that great software I came to love during my first run with the thing is still there.

To help defeat this problem in the future I made one important configuration change. There’s an option under the Trackpad settings to ignore its input when another mouse is connected. Unfortunately this only tells the UI to ignore the mouse. It’s still connected as a device and streams interrupts all day long causing some slowness, in particular when scrolling or attempting to bring up the dock.

This post was made with MacJournal in honor of the MacBook’s return.

edit: annoyingly, MacJournal did not do any formatting when posting to the blog.

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The MacBook is Back!