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by pbrumm 3523 days ago
how is the trackpad?
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It's OK. It tracks as well as my rMBP's did/does, but does not recognize multiple simultaneous touches (hard to explain, but best example is holding down the keypad (yes, the whole thing clicks like the real MBP trackpads before this force touch garbage used to) with one finger than dragging with another to click-and-drag - this would work on an MBP but does not on the ZBook Studio).

It's an alps trackpad, which is unfortunate because their drivers suck. I have basically two or three configurations possible for the gestures. Synaptic would be way better, but I can't find any glass synaptic trackpads (the Dell Precision 5510 - a beefed up XPS 15 - had an even crappier Elantech).

that gesture does work on the glass surface book trackpad