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"Now whenever I use a PC trackpad, I'm astonished at just how bad they are, even on premium PCs." Yesterday I had to install something on my old computer and I
by forgottenpaswrd 15y ago
"Now whenever I use a PC trackpad, I'm astonished at just how bad they are, even on premium PCs."
Yesterday I had to install something on my old computer and I realized how bad the keyboard was, there it was , a piece of clunky , and cheap plastic. I have got used to mac keyboard so much.
I also use the magic track pad, OMG, using wacom trackpad was terrible.
"Why can't PC manufacturers get it right?"
Because it takes a lot of work and money. Apple products are patented and they can't just copy them(magic trackpad uses good quality glass and aluminium instead of plastic) so they need to design new ones, costing millions of dollars per device and this only makes sense if you could sell millions overnight like Apple does.
- archangel_one 15y agoSurely Asus make enough laptops to amortise the cost of designing a decent trackpad over them? I think the problem here is the same thing that manufacturers still haven't gotten; the quality of the build is important, even though it isn't a number that you can put into a spreadsheet for a $/MHz comparison.
- Tloewald 15y agoApple's smoothing algorithm for mouse movement is something that mad PCs unpleasant to work on for me for years. Those ads I think Microsoft has got it good enough that while it's different it's no longer actively unpleasant, bu it's oe of many, many tiny things Apple sweated over back in 1984 and Microsoft didn't notice at the time. (let's not get into text edit field behavior.)
- Tloewald 15y agoWow was my spelling mangled. Thanks iOS. That's "made PCs" and "These days" and "but it's one"