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If you find your fluorescent light won’t turn on sometimes, there could be a variety of reasons why. Approximately 35,000 house fires per year are caused by “electrical distribution and lighting equipment.” What’s worse-a fluorescent light that doesn’t work isn’t just a nuisance, it can be dangerous. I don't mind clicking instead of tapping if that stops this foolishness.There are only a few things as headache-inducing as getting ready to be productive, only to be interrupted by a fluorescent light that won’t turn on or that starts to flicker. I tried typing with my hands held in the air like the old typing teachers used to try to get us to do, but the skipping persisted.Ī few minutes ago, I turned off 'tap to click' and since then the cursor hasn't skipped. I am not in the mood for returning and setting up a third one, when this seems to be a more prevalent problem than I expected. New one is great - but the cursor still skips. I bought a 12" 2015 Macbook on New Year's Day and loved everything about it except the randomly skipping cursor, which sometimes even skipped right out of the app I was working in! Brought it to the Apple Store January 20 when I couldn't find a way to control the problem, and they replaced it with a new one immediately. If I hadn't needed more disk storage and memory for certain applications, I would have been perfectly happy with my perfectly working previous MBP. The Apple Genius said the next steps would be to restore my laptop to stock (which I did by the way because the day I got it the FileVault boot sequence fell over and I had to do an internet restore) and then if it still did it (and I could show them it was doing it) they would replace the trackpad. When I mentioned the thread to the chat agent, I got the canned "We have over 300 million devices out there and people often post to the community forums before they contact us" response. My suggestion is that everyone call/chat with support and reference this thread.
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So not only is this a rejection issue but it looks like the "double tap" to relocate cursor is being activated when the erroneous movement happens. If I just type random letters with my left hand and then touch the trackpad with my right thumb, the cursor bar will move but the typing cursor location will stay put. What it looks like might be happening is that the the finger tip rejection is not working while you are actively typing. If my palm brushes the trackpad while typing the cursor doesn't move (and in fact the cursor bar disappears.
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It looks like the palm rejection works fine. But the settings are stock when I'm not docked, so I'm doubtful.ĭoing some of my own troubleshooting. They did request I turn off SmoothCursor - which I use to adjust the acceleration profile between using as a laptop and when I'm in my Henge dock on a 32" monitor.
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I basically got the "see if you can document the problem better and bring it back" solution. They ran some sort of hardware diagnostic that you can't get to as a consumer (a large image representing a trackpad appeared on the screen and he ran his finger all around on it - turning the screen from Grey to Green. Well - took mine in and had an Apple Genius look at it.