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Apple doesn't want to sell you a laptop, they want to sell you an oversized ipad with a keyboard. Unfortunately the giant trackpad is here to stay
by ChrisRR 6y ago
Apple doesn't want to sell you a laptop, they want to sell you an oversized ipad with a keyboard. Unfortunately the giant trackpad is here to stay
- underseacables 6y agoThe giant trackpad seemed like Apple wanted people to use the MacBook like an iPad, which still doesn’t make sense.
- emptyparadise 6y agoWhy can't they just put in a touch screen? Is it purely pride at this point?
- Joeri 6y agoA touch screen serves a different role than a trackpad. They could replace the trackpad by a touch screen, like asus’s screenpad, but that comes at the expense of battery life.
- breakfastduck 6y agoThe giant trackpad is one of the most appealing features of the machine to me and many others.
- revscat 6y agoYou can see the point though, right? I’m personally ok with the trackpad, but compare it with the “nipple” from the old IBM laptops. You could scan across the entire screen with the barest movement of your finger. The minimalism in that design was impressive,
- na85 6y agoThe trackpoint/nipple was awful. It's fetishized now because of anti-apple counterculture but it's a truly horrid pointing device that was only ever popular because early trackpads were that much worse.
- breakfastduck 6y agoI absolutely hate the nipple. I have no idea why there's such a fanbase for it.