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Re:Asus replaced the touchpad on its new ZenBook Pro with a ... by rutierut on Saturday June 09, 2018 @04:02AM (#17272040)
Pretty good point, Mac OS is already using the touch pad to input signatures (you use the touch pad as paper and your finger as a pencil) which works extremely well but currently has no visual feedback, there is probably space for much more useful applications when that becomes available. I just really has to be an OLED display though.
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Re:Asus replaced the touchpad on its new ZenBook Pro with a ... by Fnoord on Saturday June 09, 2018 @08:57AM (#17272795)
> which works extremely well but currently has no visual feedback

Why isn't that plus haptic feedback good enough for the examples you mentioned?

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Re:Asus replaced the touchpad on its new ZenBook Pro with a ... by rutierut on Saturday June 09, 2018 @03:39PM (#17274615)
No it's perfectly fine, I just meant I can imagine there are lots of other applications of the touch pad that are currently limited by this
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