I got Apple to replace my battery and everything works fine now.

I have the EXACT same issue with my Macbook Pro. I am a Windows native, so perhaps this just plagues us, as we are less used to the mac track pad. I think its cause is exactly as you describe above; my hand hits the trackpad occasionally as I type, causing it to interpret the touch as a click. I won’t disable trackpad clicking, as I love the feature when it functions as intended. The only trick I’ve been able to come up with so far is to make sure my mouse is positioned at the bottom of any text box or page that I am typing on. That way, if you accidentally touch the pad, the interpreted click will be on the bottom of the document, which is, in essence (unless you’ve pressed enter in the blank space below your text a bunch of times) the same as clicking on the last spot your cursor can possibly occupy. i.e. the place you are currently typing (unless you’re editing previously entered text)

This has pretty much eliminated the issue for me, but it is still annoying…

(Congrats)

As I’m typing, the window will suddenly change focus or the text become highlighted which will cause me to accidentally type over it.

I thought that perhaps I was accidentally touching the trackpad, so I tried turning off trackpad clicking (I was already using the ignore accidental input option). This didn’t seem to work, and I knew I wasn’t hitting the actual click button.

After quite a while I was finely able to pinpoint the issue–on the sides of the trackpad where one rests their palms while typing, if pressure is applied just right it will actually make the macbook click as though I hit the button under the trackpad.

Some Googling revealed that a bloated battery could possibly cause this, so I took out the battery to take a look. It doesn’t look bloated, however taking it out did seem to fix the problem.

Looks like a call to Apple is in order for tomorrow morning…

Anybody experience anything like this before?

Quicksilver is a sweet app. On Windows I always used to just create shortcuts in the C:\Windows\System32 directory and do a Win+R in order to quick launch random apps but after using Quicksilver I decided I had to find a better solution for my Windows computers, which is Launchy. It has a good interface (with the default skin anyways) and has the basic features of Quicksilver that I use. Launchy also has a built in calculator as well (Quicksilver might too, never tried doing calculator operations with it).

You should try some C#, its the most well designed language out there (although Ruby might beat it in elegance, C# is a close 2nd).

It seems to run much faster than my 3ghz machine w/ 1.5gigs of RAM, and the wireless hasn’t caused any problems for me so far (though I don’t have the macbook pro, so no aluminum if that is the cause).

‘Course, I also never did anything in C#, so that doesn’t cause any issues with me.

I had been using Windows machines since the DOS days and I picked up a MacBook Pro in January. I used it as my primary machine for about 6 or 7 months but I switched back to using Windows (Vista specifically) as my primary OS a month or two ago.

Overall, the Mac is a very good machine, but it doesn’t fit my workflow and I was never as productive on it (using TextMate) as I was on Windows (using SciTE and Visual Studio). My main problem with the Mac is that (as a power user) it is *too simplified.* While Windows may not be as easy to use as OS X, in OS X its all simple or nothing simple – there’s no in-between. Basically what I mean by that is that you’re either happy with the lack of options and limited abilities or you sit in bash 24×7 typing console commands. Other things I didn’t like were poor wireless (I believe this is because of the aluminum case on the MBP) and OS X doesn’t seem to do too well with handling CPU priorities – I have a top of the line MBP and it lags up on a regular basis without running too many programs. Also, the lack of native .NET support is kind of annoying since C# is amazing, but Mono is still okay.

I still use my MBP on a regular, but not for anything too intensive.

For FTP use I use Cyberduck which is a great little app. I also use Camino as a browser which is based on Firefox, but is faster. Finally, if you use Windows I’d definitely give Parallels a go – its a great app and I use it for my accounts and for testing websites

Hope this helps

@Alex & Matthew: It’s working out great. Yep, I did the free iPod deal, as well as the deal on buying Adobe software along with it. Apparently there’s a printer rebate as well, though I didn’t do that one.