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The laptop trackpads with 2 finger touch are great. Having to consciously think "I need to click in the bottom right corner to right click" on non-apple laptop
by huffmsa 7y ago
The laptop trackpads with 2 finger touch are great. Having to consciously think "I need to click in the bottom right corner to right click" on non-apple laptop is cumbersome.
It's never felt as natural on their mice though.
- seba_dos1 7y agoI haven't seen a non-apple laptop where two-finger right click didn't work for years.
- huffmsa 7y agoIt does work but I've yet to encounter one that works as well as the Apple one. Like how the 1 button mouse works, but the two button one works more better. Though I was moreso talking about the OG hockey puck that shipped with the OG iMac.
- seba_dos1 7y agoI'm using Apple touchpad right now (and a non-Apple one too, right next to it) and it's nothing special. The only thing that makes it pleasant to use is the way gestures are implemented in macOS - but it has nothing to do with two-finger click. This works just as well, or even slightly better, on my non-Apple laptop with GNU/Linux and it's been a while since I've encountered a touchpad that would be worse in this regard (they definitely existed many years ago though).
- danaris 7y agoThe hockey puck was bad, sure, but your criticism only mentioned the buttons. You realize that Apple was doing one-button mice from before (almost) everyone else was doing mice, period, yes?
- gbmor 7y agoOn my Thinkpad X240's touchpad, 2-finger touch is quite natural feeling. To right click, I just have the second finger touching somewhere in quadrant I. Just an example.