[prmoustache]

> appears to come with a pretty poor trackpad in comparison.

What is this trackpad obsession with macbooks? Granted I use mostly a mouse when on my desk but I am mostly a thinkpad user (but I've used dell and hp professionally in the past too) and to me trackpads have been a solved problem for around 2 decades. They work fine. I slide my finger and the pointer move. I use 2 of them and it scrolls, etc.

What is so different on apple trackpads and what do you do with them? whenever I had my hands on a macbook I didn't really felt any significative difference.

[jogu]

The size, texture, precision, functionality (tapping, multi-finger), palm rejection are all just about flawless on Macbooks. Other manufacturers have good trackpads that are great at some of these things but never all of them.

[bronkic]

I'm used to a macbook trackpad and recently tried to use a cheaper windows laptop, and the trackpad drove me crazy. It's basically not possible for me to type something without my palms constantly moving the mouse cursor and doing random clicks. Had to return it because of it.

[wildzzz]

There's typically an option in Windows to disable the trackpad automatically when typing.

[joseda-hg]

Mac trackpads (And even the Magic Trackpad itself) is AFAIK best in class Good enough that some people even do trackpads on desktop