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Haha, there has to be a modding community dedicated to embedding this into a laptop shell google's furiously
by apatheticonion 3y ago
Haha, there has to be a modding community dedicated to embedding this into a laptop shell google's furiously
- midoridensha 3y agoI'm surprised no one's tried modding touchpads (such as MacBook ones) to fit different laptops, but I think it would be nearly impossible to do well, because the dimensions of the touchpads are going to be different, so making the transplant fit would require manufacturing a new top cover (the part that surrounds the keyboard) for the target laptop, which would be pretty much impossible for someone without access to a plastics factory, or who can finance a large enough order to do the engineering and tooling set-up for that with a contract manufacturer. But I wonder if anyone's tried to do it at all, even if the results are a bit ugly.
- smoldesu 3y agoMaybe I'm crazy, but I just place mine to the right side of my laptop and use it like normal. It feels natural and is what I'm used to at my desk, and lets me sorta position my display wherever feels right while I work. It's not ideal, I guess, but the trackpad barely takes up space in my daily carry and is always charged at my desk. If I'm headed out for a longer productivity session, sometimes I'll toss it in my bag just to work a little more comfortably.
- midoridensha 3y agoI've never actually seen one of these external trackpads, but are they thin enough to just put inside your laptop before you close the lid? If not, that's the part I don't understand: if I have to carry around, and plug in, some external pointing device, I'd just bring a small mouse. But if a trackpad can fit inside the laptop, that would take less space than the mouse, and be easier to keep track of inside a backpack.