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A comment on 13-inch MacBook Pro (non Touch Bar) Battery Replacement Program. Parent comment

Re:13-inch MacBook Pro (non Touch Bar) Battery Replacement P... by chx on Saturday April 21, 2018 @05:24AM (#16890674)
I think you are looking at the wrong thing. That's like looking for Symbian qualities in an iPhone. I mean, what you need is a productive pointing device not specifically a touchpad and for that the TrackPoint in ThinkPads still wins.
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Re:13-inch MacBook Pro (non Touch Bar) Battery Replacement P... by zepolen on Saturday April 21, 2018 @06:28AM (#16890843)
No, what I need is a way to scroll effortlessly on a laptop.
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Re:13-inch MacBook Pro (non Touch Bar) Battery Replacement P... by solarkraft on Saturday April 21, 2018 @07:16AM (#16890961)
This unfortunately almost purely a software issue and with Apple having a tight grip of their developers they can easily make them support their trackpads well.

On Linux, with modern GTK apps, scrolling up and down has become pretty nice. Scrolling in other directions is still not certain and zooming is out of the question, though.

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Re:13-inch MacBook Pro (non Touch Bar) Battery Replacement P... by fragmede on Saturday April 21, 2018 @07:26AM (#16890995)
On a properly configured Thinkpad, hold down the middle button, and scroll with the TouchPoint without leaving home row.
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