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Who has a useful trackpad anyways? An actually great one, besides Apple? I have no idea why this is the case? Patents or too expensive to justify? Genuinely c
by grimgrin 8y ago
Who has a useful trackpad anyways? An actually great one, besides Apple?
I have no idea why this is the case? Patents or too expensive to justify?
Genuinely curious
- BounceHouse 8y agoDe-coupling of hardware and software mainly. All kinds of 3rd parties writing drivers for the trackpad for an OS they don't have control over.
- pdq 8y agoI've heard the Microsoft Surface is very good.
- tudorw 8y agoIt is lovely, as is the Surface Book 2, the pen inking is sublime ;)
- 013a 8y agoMost Windows PCs which ship with precision drivers and an oversized glass trackpad feel 90% as good as the MacBooks. The Surface line and the new Razer Blade 15 are two examples. The precision drivers are key. Many manufacturers still haven't adopted them, and they are the main reason why Windows trackpads still get a bad rep.
- gizzlon 8y agoI like my XPS 13 trackpad :) The mac ones seems too big, suspect it would be in the way and hamper the keyboard. (I haven't used a the newer Mac models enough to be certain). Dells works great on Linux (Arch + KDE)
- sigzero 8y agoIt is too big. It's nice but too big. It is, however, an excellent trackpad. Reviews constantly name it #1.
- p2t2p 8y agoSurface's trackpad is as good as Mac's even though all other parts of experience is trash. However, now Mac has this force touchpad which you don't really press, so it recognises all of the presses with no respect to where you do it. Nobody has anything like this and I must tell you that one gets used to it reaaaaaaly quick.