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I recently got one and the touchpad is so bad, its infuriating to use. There are also many posts in the community about quality of the touchpad.

• newsbinator 6y ago
  I'd like to see a brand that starts with optimizing the cost vs. quality of the touchpad, keyboard, and screen and works its way backwards from there. This may be naive, but I'm guessing a mid-range 2020 laptop shouldn't have a worse touchpad than a 2008 white clamshell MacBook.
  • alpanka 6y ago
    Why not buy one, join the community and help writing better drivers? After all, pinebook is more a hacker device than a consumer device.
    • newsbinator 6y ago
      I wouldn't be qualified, personally, to write better drivers, but I do agree with your message. That said, it's a problem in the larger ecosystem. I'm not sure why Chromebooks and even higher-end Windows machines tend to have lousy trackpads, when it's a "make or break" part of the user experience (and when Apple got it right enough 10 ~ 20 years ago).
    • cxr 6y ago
      Because it's probably not a software problem. Why not source better parts from the beginning? The existence of this TM3141 touchpad[1]—which is every bit as good as a MacBook touchpad and works with a stock Ubuntu configuration—is proof that this is already a solved problem. 1. https://www.newegg.com/p/0TP-001B-002C6 https://www.newegg.com/p/0TP-001B-002C6