Yes, then you have two options, well, three options and a fanatical devotion to the Pope... :-)
First option is to slow the acceleration (System Preferences>Keyboard&Mouse>Tracking) but most people after a little time will just set it back to maximum again.
Second option has to do with the way that tracking works -- if you move your mouse/fingers on the trackpad slooowly, you can even move pixel by pixel, but if the hardware senses that you are moving very fast or accelerating, it doubles the tracking rate for every sampling, so you can move very fast or even shoot the pointer from one end of the screen to the other in less space than the trackpad has. In my experience, if they just told people that, they'd be making many more friends, because it's typically the info that's missing.
Third thing to be aware of is that the cursor can't fall off the screen with MacOS, which is a feature we've been relying on for eons to shoot the cursor from anywhere on the screen to a border, say, menu bar or dock etc. If it's truly falling off the screen the thing to check is that your computer doesn't think you have extra displays (System Preferences>Displays) that are being used to extend the screen instead of mirroring it.
And yeah, the new MacBooks and MacBookPros are very tempting, I keep thinking about them even though I don't need another computer. ;-)
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Date: Thursday, 25 May 2006 09:45 pm (UTC)First option is to slow the acceleration (System Preferences>Keyboard&Mouse>Tracking) but most people after a little time will just set it back to maximum again.
Second option has to do with the way that tracking works -- if you move your mouse/fingers on the trackpad slooowly, you can even move pixel by pixel, but if the hardware senses that you are moving very fast or accelerating, it doubles the tracking rate for every sampling, so you can move very fast or even shoot the pointer from one end of the screen to the other in less space than the trackpad has. In my experience, if they just told people that, they'd be making many more friends, because it's typically the info that's missing.
Third thing to be aware of is that the cursor can't fall off the screen with MacOS, which is a feature we've been relying on for eons to shoot the cursor from anywhere on the screen to a border, say, menu bar or dock etc. If it's truly falling off the screen the thing to check is that your computer doesn't think you have extra displays (System Preferences>Displays) that are being used to extend the screen instead of mirroring it.
And yeah, the new MacBooks and MacBookPros are very tempting, I keep thinking about them even though I don't need another computer. ;-)