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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
by 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 agoWhy 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 agoI 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 agoBecause 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