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Re:The Mac Pro Lives by nottorp on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @10:53AM (#14033237)
* Touchpad support.

I think most people who haven't used an Apple laptop extensively are not aware that the touchpad actually works, and you do not need to carry an external mouse to use the device comfortably.

Re:The Mac Pro Lives by snowwrestler on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @11:21AM (#14033574)
Apple touchpads work so well that I don't use a mouse at all anymore. I have a Bluetooth touchpad with my external keyboard, and I even bought an old Fingerworks touchpad to use with my PC.

The power of gestures is incredible. Managing macOS windows without a touchpad is awful. With a touchpad it is the best.

Re:The Mac Pro Lives by Godel_unicode on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @11:14AM (#14033483)
Precision touchpad gestures on Windows 10 solves that problem, especially on the Dell XPS/Precision machines. It's really, really good.
Re:The Mac Pro Lives by emptythought on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @11:42AM (#14033854)
Nah.

We have those at my work, and we also have an iMac with a magic trackpad, and several of us have macbook pros.

It's a huge improvement, but it's maybe 75% of the way there. And the points at which it's NOT there are very noticeable and annoying. There's still regularly times where the trackpad just gets totally confused and you can't move the cursor for 1-2 seconds. Mehhhhhh

Re:The Mac Pro Lives by Godel_unicode on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @01:40PM (#14035306)
That's interesting, I've used a precision at work and an XPS at home for the last year, both have been totally rock solid.
Re:The Mac Pro Lives by EpicEng on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @03:58PM (#14036593)
The touchpad is literally the single hurdle to me going back to a windows/linux laptop.
Re:The Mac Pro Lives by 72deluxe on Wednesday April 05, 2017 @05:21AM (#14040816)
This is very true. When I reboot my MacBook into Windows the touchpad becomes dumb.
Re:The Mac Pro Lives by Macha on Tuesday April 04, 2017 @01:37PM (#14035272)
I have had a work Mac for the last two years. I haven't found Apple touchpads to be this revolutionary change that'd make me like touchpads that others have and still carry a wireless mouse around. I'm not the only one in my office.