Re:Linux touchpad like a MacBook Pro, May 2020 update
by dkonofalski on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @01:00PM
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It was very dramatic. For one, it stopped being a physical, clickable trackpad and became a single piece of glass with haptic button pushes. Losing the physical components also gave more room to make it larger and it's gotten bigger since. You also got more multi-touch options. It was pretty big.
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Re:Linux touchpad like a MacBook Pro, May 2020 update
by 0xCMP on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @01:04PM
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The haptic responses only began with the 2016 or 2017 models. You can tell when it's turned off if clicks or not. (I have a Mid 2014 from work)
Re:Linux touchpad like a MacBook Pro, May 2020 update
by abrowne on Thursday May 07, 2020 @03:45PM
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It started with the 2015 MacBook Pro models, the last before the USB-C models.
Re:Linux touchpad like a MacBook Pro, May 2020 update
by coldtea on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @01:15PM
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>It was very dramatic. For one, it stopped being a physical, clickable trackpad and became a single piece of glass with haptic button pushes. Losing the physical components also gave more room to make it larger and it's gotten bigger since. You also got more multi-touch options. It was pretty big.
All of these are correct but have nothing / little to do with the quality of the main trackpad use experience, which was still great on Macs before it got haptic pushes, larger size, glass, etc.
Re:Linux touchpad like a MacBook Pro, May 2020 update
by dkonofalski on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @01:57PM
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We'll just have to agree to disagree. The experience was great on Macs before then but it was still a dramatic difference when this change happened because we got additional gestures, much more precise tracking, and a larger surface area with less friction than the previous models.