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I went to an Apple store to try just this and came away unimpressed. Apart from the much better integration of gestures with the OS, I didn't feel anything spec
by ubercow13 7y ago
I went to an Apple store to try just this and came away unimpressed. Apart from the much better integration of gestures with the OS, I didn't feel anything special about the touchpad or its acceleration curve. In fact the touchpad was quite annoying to use because there was a kind of block on movement after a click that was far to long, making it difficult to click multiple different things quickly in a row. Overall I preferred my own laptop using libinput at the time :)
- oefrha 7y ago> kind of block on movement after a click that was far to long There are two modes of operation, what you dislike is the default; the other is called tap-to-click, which doesn’t give you haptic feedback and you can click however fast you want. Opinion is divided on this, with many diehards swearing by the haptic feedback. I prefer tap-to-click.
- ubercow13 7y agoTap-to-click is slower though, if I understand correctly. Imagine clicking three adjacent buttons in a row as fast as possible. If you tap each one you have to lift your finger off the trackpad 5 times.
- oefrha 7y agoI can lift my finger just a tiny bit to register another click way faster than the haptic feedback would allow me.
- jeffhuys 7y agoWhat he's arguing is that if you have this: BUTTON 1 - BUTTON 2 - BUTTON 3 In your situation, you have to tap, lift finger, place finger to move, lift finger, tap, etc. In the other situation, you have to place finger, press lightly, move finger, press lightly, move finger, etc. Using tap-to-click can't be faster than the other situation. That said, I use both. Sometimes I just tap, sometimes I press, sometimes I press harder.