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Apple Made Many Changes With New Mac Pro Laptop
You can’t make an appointment to buy a Map Pro laptop at the Apple Store in Arden Fair.
While wandering through the house the other day, I noticed a new laptop my husband recently bought, and I picked up his Mac Pro laptop, just to pet, see how it felt in my hands, admire the design. Holy cow, I was blown away by the weight. It was so light. I wondered how old my Mac laptop was because you can’t really go by the date in your “about this Mac” pulldown menu. My existing Mac Pro laptop says it was manufactured mid 2010 and whoa, here it is 2017.
Stuff has changed dramatically at Apple computers, though. For starters, they are doing away with the USB ports in favor of USB-C ports and, of course, Thunderbolt. On top of this, there is no CD or DVD changer in the new Mac Pro laptops. Fortunately, I have a portable CD drive for my Mini Mac desktop and, with a converter, I can still use it. But this also means CDs and DVDs are going away too.
I guess one either downloads it from the Cloud or streams live data. I have finally gotten used to CDs after floppy disks, and now that will be a thing of the past. Some day 25 years from now, if I live that long, I’ll look back and think how am I going to play that DVD that I converted from a VHS, and I’ll go hunting online to find an ancient DVD player that will work with whatever adapter will eventually replace the USB-C.
Going to the Apple Store is very different, too. The last time I bought a Mac, they gave me a special before-hours appointment with a specialist. Just for me, they opened the door at Arden Fair and let me inside before the store opened. I could shop at my leisure, ask all sorts of questions and receive customized service by appointment. Not so anymore.
You can make an appointment at the Genius Bar to ask technical support questions, but you can’t make an appointment to buy a product. I thought I’d fool them by combining my technical questions with my purchase questions, but they would not let the technical guy sell me a computer and, after I was through with him, I would still need to wait to find a sales rep. Spittooey on this. If I didn’t like Mac computers so much, I wouldn’t put up with it.
But Apple knows I will, and that irritates me even more.
However, I did walk out of the store with a new Mac Pro laptop. I may never finish uploading it because the contents of my computer right now are 4 times the amount the laptop storage permits, and I don’t want to upload my existing laptop computer contents. Oh well, I’ve been fighting iCloud and I can’t do that anymore, either. Not if I want to keep my life simple, and you can bet Apple knows I do.
I’m way too busy as a Sacramento Realtor to spend time dinging around on my computer. It needs to work right, whether I am at my home office, on the road or traveling to some exotic country. But check out the new Mac Pro laptops. They have a special bar that lets you access Twitter with one button, and who can complain about a computer that weighs 3 pounds?
How to Fix the Touchpad in Windows 10 for Boot Camp
Now everybody can fix the touchpad in Windows 10 for Boot Camp
Before my Windows upgrade, I never had to worry about how to fix the touchpad in Windows 10 for Boot Camp because the trackpad was working fine. I am not an early adopter for upgrades anyway. My husband believes, and I agree, it’s often better to wait until the upgrade produces an update, which fixes the bugs in the upgrade, because almost every major corporation releases new technology before it’s ready, just to capture your dollars. It’s the American way. Sell them junk and fix it later.
For that reason, I held off on upgrading to Windows 10 until a few weeks ago. It pains me that I am forced to use Windows 10 because I do not like working on a PC. I prefer my Apple products. Apple customer since 1991. Less hassle. More reliability. However, the only software in the world it seems that financial institutions allow downloads from works in that capacity primarily only in Windows. The Mac version sucks. My husband thinks I should buy a $200 DELL and forget about Boot Camp and my Touchpad in Windows 10, and other issues that undoubtedly will arise.
Elizabeth Weintraub checking email in Maui.
But for now, I have a state-of-the-art Mac Pro laptop that I take with me on vacation, as evidenced by this photo a couple of years ago in Maui, when Barbara Dow and I scored a top-floor suite at the Fairmont Kea Lani. If my laptop wasn’t a wor-cation computer, I wouldn’t care if the touchpad in Windows 10 worked at all, but since I take it with me for weeks on end, if I forgot to cart along a plug-in mouse, I’d be hosed if I needed to access financial data. I searched everywhere online for a solution and could not find it, so I do what I always do in those instances, and I picked up the phone.
Yes, the phone works. You get real live people connected to it if you keep screaming at the automated voice prompts: representative. This was originally written in March 2016 but I have since upgraded and found the problem recreated itself.
Here is How to Fix the Touchpad in Windows 10 for Boot Camp
Updated September 28, 2016
First make sure your computer is updated, both Windows software and Apple. Restart.
>Go to Settings
>Connected Devices
>Device Manager
>Touchpad
>Select Browse my Computer.
Then click on Let me pick from a list of devices on my computer. Then choose the USB, the second option, and bingo. The trackpad in Windows 10 works.
The reason why this is so difficult to find online, I suspect, is because the touchpad problem seems to only affect users in Boot Camp. Most people don’t use Boot Camp anymore because there is no reason to ever touch a Windows machine, well, unless you use it to download financial transactions from major banking institutions. I will also add this comment, Citibank no longer allows downloads, which is the main reason I have stopped using that particular Double Your Cash Back card. That was not a wise decision, I suspect, on Citibank’s part. But that bank is so risk adverse it has stopped using email, except for internal communications.
I thanked the guy at Apple profusely. He said, I’m just an IT guy. He was too modest. No way, I assured him, you are a miracle worker! I hope his advice helps others as well to fix the touchpad in Windows 10.
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