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It's so an age thing. Older people don't have the motor skills to use touchpads.
by SamReidHughes 11y ago
It's so an age thing. Older people don't have the motor skills to use touchpads.
- Poiesis 11y agoWhatever your intentions, your statement reads a tad condescending.
- PhasmaFelis 11y agoNo, I'll back Aidos up. I hated trackpads until the first time I used a MacBook. Apple's trackpads are just way easier to be precise with. I have no clue why. It can't be the software, because it's still true when running Windows via Boot Camp.
- SamReidHughes 11y agoIt is still an age thing. Old people have far worse a time on trackpads, especially on Windows. I think much of the problem with Windows is in the Synaptics driver. On one Windows machine, I see 5-10% CPU usage whenever my finger's touching the trackpad. The trackpad on that machine works a lot better on Linux. On the other hand, some other trackpads work far better on Windows than on Linux. One big difference between trackpad behavior on Windows and OS X is that on OS X there's always delay between when your hand touches the trackpad and when the mouse starts moving -- the first N ms are ignored. On Windows, it varies from machine to machine -- for example, on an ASUS machine I have, you need a certain threshold of movement and then the pointer catches up to what its location would be, but with others there's no delay.