Over the weekend, we reported on the growing body of circumstantial evidence that pointed to a flaw in the glass trackpad on the new MacBooks. A growing number of MacBook and MacBook Pro users have been reporting an unusual error with their trackpad. According to the forum discussions, the trackpad stops responding for 5-10 clicks after working for about 50 clicks. One MacBook owner took his complaints further than the forums and sent an email directly to Steve Jobs. According to Mac Rumors, Steve-O himself responded with a short but sweet email saying “Software fix coming soon”. Fake or for real? It is difficult to tell as Steve Jobs has been known to respond to emails in the past and the header information in this current email is consistent with previously reported emails. If this rumor pans out, then you MacBook owners can relax knowing that the problem lies with the software and not the hardware and that an easy fix may be coming soon.

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If multiple reports across the web are to be believed, the answer might be yes. According to a rather sizeable thread over at the Apple discussion forums, a number of users are experiencing a curious problem that causes the track pad on their new Macbook to freeze up and stop registering clicks after 50 or so successful pushes. The freeze seems to last for 5-10 clicks, after which the button begins functioning again. There has been no official response from Apple, so we can only speculate as to the cause, but according to many of the responses on the forums it seems that tweaking some of the software settings for trackpad sensitivity cause the problem to disappear, at least for a short bit of time. If it is in fact  software related, Apple could theorhetically right the issue with a simple firmware update, a much easier task than a full-on hardware recall. Anyone out there experiencing a similar issue on their shiny new laptops?

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