Apple acknowledges keyboard problems with recent MacBooks

Re:Apple acknowledges keyboard problems with recent MacBooks by seba_dos1 on Thursday March 28, 2019 @12:24PM (#19513706)

Macbooks have a pretty standard touchpads, "force touch" aside. It's just a matter of proper software and configuration. Of course gesture support in software isn't comparable in any way, but my Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro touchpad on GNU/Linux generally feels better than Macbook's ones or Magic Trackpad 2 on macOS.

Also, I've got some non-jailbroken iPhone for development and I have no issues with installing ipa's on it from GNU/Linux. I didn't need more though, so haven't tested anything else, but working app installer makes me think that other simpler things should work too :P

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Re:Apple acknowledges keyboard problems with recent MacBooks by scarface74 on Friday March 29, 2019 @07:52PM (#19526588)

So besides force touch and software support there is no difference....

Isn’t that kind of big deal?

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Re:Apple acknowledges keyboard problems with recent MacBooks by seba_dos1 on Saturday March 30, 2019 @09:59AM (#19529412)

Force touch? Hardly, it's a gimmick. The only "big deal" out of it is silent clicking, which is why I own Magic Trackpad 2, but not everyone will care about that.

Software support - well, yes, but it's within the application makers and power users reach to fix it. There's a common myth that "Apple touchpads work on magic", while in fact neither hardware nor the driver is so special. It's just the apps.

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