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its the trackpad for me, no other laptop is comparable afaik
by chadcmulligan 2y ago
its the trackpad for me, no other laptop is comparable afaik
- ghostpepper 2y agoit was the trackpad for me, now it's the trackpad and the battery life. nobody else comes close on either.
- shiroiushi 2y agoI wonder what exactly sets the Mac trackpad apart from the rest: is it hardware or software? I wonder if there's a way to improve it on other laptops.
- kmmlng 2y agoI feel like on other laptops everyone is optimizing for specs/price and specs don't include quality of life features like a good trackpad. Sure, it would be nice to have a good trackpad, but chances are your customers are going to buy a cheaper laptop with a worse trackpad from a competitor.
- chadcmulligan 2y agothere are some coming out, the lg gram for example, has a haptic touchpad
- mike_hearn 2y agoA lot of it is software. When the Chromebook guys were just starting out they wanted a Mac style touchpad, but discovered you couldn't buy one on the open market. They had to do a ton of custom work on drivers to try and get close to Apple's work. There's a lot of subtlety to palm rejection, scaling, haptics, etc.
- shiroiushi 2y agoSo is it software in the OS, or is it firmware in the touchpad itself? Software in the OS should be very easy to improve, but it seems like it should be very device-specific. Firmware in the touchpad controller is another matter.
- iainmerrick 2y agoI think it also helps a lot that the OS (or at least a version of it) was originally designed to work with a one-button mouse.
- kergonath 2y agoThe two-fingers-tap for right click works great on the various Apple trackpads. Much better than the same gesture on my expensive Dell Precision. Both the two fingers gesture and the click on the right side of the trackpad, which is infuriating. I really don’t think the OS supporting one-button mice explains the difference in reliability.