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Where do you work that you have room to use a mouse? Coffee shops, planes, trains, passenger seat in a car, literally on my lap in waiting rooms or transit ter
by na85 8y ago
Where do you work that you have room to use a mouse?
Coffee shops, planes, trains, passenger seat in a car, literally on my lap in waiting rooms or transit terminals, etc. This is where I use my laptop, and I don't have room for a mouse in these places.
- mkirklions 8y agoA desk
- innocenat 8y agoI put the mouse on my touchpad. Works well rnough
- trash_panda 8y agoMost of the time in a desk, I do travel a lot though. And when I'm using my laptop on my lap, I use the clitoris-like trackpoint, which I think it's terrible but I can work just fine with it. I also have a Dell XPS and the touchpad is decent, I can work fine with it. As I said, I'm not questioning the fact that Macs touchpads are superior, but I'm curious as to what are your use cases that make you think that you really need that superb touchpad? are you a graphic designer?
- na85 8y agoI need tracking of some sort, and my workflows tend to be mouse-heavy. I don't personally have a hard requirement for the Macbook touchpad, but the pad is a huge part of my interaction with a laptop and I hate using the clitmouse. I will never ever voluntarily run windows so my options are Linux, BSD, or Mac. BSD is horribly performant on any laptop hardware I've tried, so that's a no-go. Linux touchpad support is a dumpster fire of bad drivers and missing config options. Mac is therefore the only real choice. At some point you just get sick of dist-upgrade breaking palm rejection and no fix being available for months.