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Re:XPS9350-macOS – macOS patches for Dell XPS 13 9350 by tatoalo on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @09:06AM (#13530596)
I've tried both the XPS 13 trackpad and the MBP 13 & 15 late 2016. I feel pretty safe to say that the XPS has by far the best trackpad experience on any Windows-based laptop I've tried but it's very much behind the MBP (IMHO!).
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Re:XPS9350-macOS – macOS patches for Dell XPS 13 9350 by gigatexal on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @09:57AM (#13531003)
Yep the trackpad is what brought me to Apple and OS X is what kept me loyal.
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Re:XPS9350-macOS – macOS patches for Dell XPS 13 9350 by tatoalo on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @02:09PM (#13534083)
On the late 2016 models I was honestly worried that the dimension changes introduced were a little bit too much. After a couple of weeks I haven't found any reason for going back to the previous generation, MacOS Sierra palm rejection software is pure magic and gestures across the entire OS are super smooth!
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Re:XPS9350-macOS – macOS patches for Dell XPS 13 9350 by jpkeisala on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @01:16PM (#13533447)
I switched from Macbook Air to XPS 13 in December. I would not say XPS is _very_ much behind on trackback at least when comparing to Air, not sure if MBP has different trackback?
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Re:XPS9350-macOS – macOS patches for Dell XPS 13 9350 by ianai on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @01:12PM (#13533401)
Then you got lucky. My trackpad skips around horribly on my xps13. I can't believe how horrible that trackpad is.
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Re:XPS9350-macOS – macOS patches for Dell XPS 13 9350 by AdmiralAsshat on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @04:24PM (#13535372)
Not sure if your XPS13 is running Win10 or Linux.

Anecdotally, I've got Fedora on mine, and I noticed a huge difference in the trackpad responsiveness when I switched from the Synaptics driver over to libinput. Palm detection got way better, for one thing.

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Re:XPS9350-macOS – macOS patches for Dell XPS 13 9350 by ianai on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @08:26PM (#13537303)
It's running Win10 and I've installed different drivers. It works ok after changing various settings and using my pointer and ring finger instead of pointer and middle finger for scrolling.
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