Re:Apple’s declining software quality
by SyneRyder on Thursday February 04, 2016 @11:48AM
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Reviewers seem to think the Surface Book trackpad isn't quite as good as the MacBook Pro, but it's close. (No idea if they're comparing against the new Force Touch trackpads, which I personally think are a regression):
http://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-surface-book-solving-...
Re:Apple’s declining software quality
by kobayashi on Thursday February 04, 2016 @12:34PM
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hmmm, why do you feel that the new Force Touch trackpads are a regression? I've yet to use one, but I have other products that use Force Touch functionality, and I'm a big fan of my older Apple Trackpad.
I kept trying them in the Apple Store every week, and at first I thought it was amazing - it feels like an actual click! - but it feels like a mushy, unsatisfying click. The more I played with it, I noticed I was triggering lots of accidental clicks, accidentally moving files around on the desktop etc. I tried tweaking the settings (for sensitivity and click feel) but couldn't find any that gave me what I wanted. Disabling Force Touch and making the main Force Touch click standard for all clicks would be very close to what I want, but there's no way to do that.
I ended up purchasing a non-Retina MacBook Pro, in large part because of the trackpad. The click on the old 2012-era trackpad is sharp, solid, satisfying & deliberate, no accidental clicks.
It's just a matter of what you're used to. I'm a recent Mac convert and I can't stand the old clicky trackpads, but I love the haptic click on my MBP's trackpad.
Re:Apple’s declining software quality
by ZanyProgrammer on Thursday February 04, 2016 @11:53AM
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I have a Surface Book from work, and I hate the trackpad. It feels (just the default out of the box, no specific tweaking) that its "mushy"-it feels like there's more resistance moving my fingers around on it than my MBP.
Agreed. It's not that Snow Leopard was some magic release that can never be bettered, it's that it has never been bettered. I can't think of any new features since then that I really value in OS X.
there was a day where I never wanted to touch Windows again
I switched from Windows to OS X back in 2006 thinking I would run Boot Camp for Windows 90% of the time. Boy was I wrong. But nowadays, if the Surface Book trackpad was as good as the Macbook's (it might be, I don't know) and cygwin was better integrated into the OS, I would be very tempted to switch back.