Don’t press the button!

I love me iBook, its cute and cuddly, unlike those big powerbooks stomping around as if they own the place. Mean powerbooks. The design does have its faults though, the vertical viewable angle of the screen is a little pants, its actually impossible to get into a position where the contrast is the same top to bottom. I can excuse it for this however as its an affliction of most notebooks, they all vary and I’d say the ibooks screen is about average.

My big gripe, and its the thing that over time is annoying me more and more, is the trackpad button. It’s so bleeding clunky, so much so that I’m considering taking it into the apple store to ask if its normally this bad? I did try and click a couple of the ibooks in the store but it was a little too noisy with customers to tell if they were as bad. It’s not just the click that’s annoying though, its that when you let go, the sheer force of the buttons chunkiness makes the screen’s release catch vibrate. So not only is the button loud but it also sounds cheap and nasty because of the catch issue. I could probably live with the buttons loudness if it wasn’t for the catch joining in, if you rest your finger on the screen release button whilst pressing the trackpad button it isn’t nearly as annoying a sound. So maybe if I could stick something under the button? I piece of felt maybe. I’m not sure how though.

I made a nice diagram to demonstrate it. Nice huh?