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That's funny, because I call the Late 2013 MBP the last best one :) Among other things, it was the last one to feature a physical trackpad click, as opposed to
by amatecha 7y ago
That's funny, because I call the Late 2013 MBP the last best one :) Among other things, it was the last one to feature a physical trackpad click, as opposed to the fake "taptic engine" all-glass trackpad of the 2014 and newer which doesn't physically move when you click (similar to newer iPhones).
- Mistri 7y agoI honestly thought I wouldn't like the fake clicking, but I ended up liking it after I used it for a day!
- jonplackett 7y agoI can never sent to click and drag successfully with the new track pad. Plus it is needlessly big
- dsego 7y agoThe haptic trackpad works beautifully imo, you can click anywhere, there is force click, the clicky sound can be turned on or off, the feedback can be adjusted. And to me it feels real.
- jakobegger 7y agoTo be honest, I actually prefer the fake click of the new trackpads. It feels very real, it's not at all comparable to the taptic feedback on the buttonless iPhones. The fake click feels so real that people don't even realise it's a fake click if you don't tell them. The mechanical trackpads only allowed clicking in the bottom half (since it was a hinge), and in my experience it was unreliable. After a few years, clicks started registering twice, or not at all, etc. The fake click track pad allows clicking everywhere, it lets you configure activation force, and for me it has been working flawlessly every day for years.
- Ensorceled 7y agoMy trackpad stopped clicking one morning and I was worried that maybe battery expansion was keeping it from being pressed down. Then I finally remembered it was haptic feedback and a reboot fixed it. I had completely forgotten it was not a real click.
- csunbird 7y agoI can confirm this, as I am an owner of two 2018 Macbook Pros for 7 months and I did not even realize that the click was fake !
- 333c 7y agoDon't know where you got this idea. My mid-2014 MBP has a physical click, where the trackpad actually sinks when I press on it.
- Stratoscope 7y agoDoes it click when the power is off?
- 333c 7y agoYep! And I can see it physically depressing when applying pressure.
- amatecha 7y agoAh right, it turns out I misunderstood the EveryMac page about the Mid-2014 [0], with the wording 'a "no button" glass "inertial" multi-touch trackpad'. Thought that was their wording for the non-moving trackpad! haha :) It's the 2015 that had the taptic engine trackpad first, I think. [0] https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/specs/macbook-pro-core-i5-2.6-13-mid-2014-retina-display-specs.html https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/specs/macbook...
- lolsal 7y agoI don't think this is accurate, the 2015 MBP I am using now has a physical click (pad has vertical travel).
- amatecha 7y agoIs it definitely 2015? Starting "Early 2015" they had the taptic trackpad https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/specs/macbook-pro-core-i5-2.7-13-early-2015-retina-display-specs.html https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/specs/macbook...
- asdff 7y agoMy 2012 one jammed up one day and the glass actually shattered upon a click. Still works and somehow I'm not getting splinters, but that's definitely an inherent flaw in the physical keyboards as batteries expand over time.
- amatecha 7y agoOh, turns out I was one model off, the next model afterward ("Mid 2014"[0]) still had the physical trackpad click, while they introduced the taptic engine with the Early 2015 model[1]. I misunderstood the EveryMac description of the features! [0] https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/specs/macbook-pro-core-i5-2.6-13-mid-2014-retina-display-specs.html https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/specs/macbook... [1] https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/specs/macbook-pro-core-i5-2.7-13-early-2015-retina-display-specs.html https://everymac.com/systems/apple/macbook_pro/specs/macbook...