True fact: I had no idea what the "usability gap" was on touchpads, even 10+ years ago before the physical click was gone, until I was on a biz trip with a Wind

True fact: I had no idea what the "usability gap" was on touchpads, even 10+ years ago before the physical click was gone, until I was on a biz trip with a Windows-using colleague who'd forgotten his mouse. He took a cab from the hotel to a Best Buy to buy a mouse, and I teased him about it. Like, are you such a hothouse flower you can't work for 4 days with the touchpad? He said something to the effect of "oh, like you wouldn't do the same thing if you left YOUR mouse at home," which was when I realized he hadn't ever noticed that I don't travel with a mouse. "But how do you put up with it? It's SO BAD!" "It really isn't; I never think about it!" And we were baffled by each other for a few minutes, and only when we swapped laptops did either of us realize the HUGE gap. I had no idea Wintel touchpads were so awful in that era (and horribly horribly small), and he had no idea that a touchpad could actually be good. It was a weird moment. (It took a while, but Dell at least caught up. The pad on my XPS15 is, while not Mac-level, absolutely usable. I have no experience with other Wintel makes in the last 5 or 10 years, but I assume the same is true of HP and Lenovo.)