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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by pjmlp on Thursday November 12, 2020 @10:49AM (#25071087)
I have both platforms at the office for years, still haven't discovered what is so magic about the trackpad.
Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by gxx on Thursday November 12, 2020 @12:39PM (#25072327)
The biggest difference between Macbook trackpads vs the best for Windows is the super low hysteresis of pointer motion vs finger motion. I recently bought and returned a Microsoft Surface Book with "precision touchpad". The main reason for returing it was that pointer control feels sluggish compared to the Macbook and its pointer speed was too slow even at its fastest. The best Dell touchpads are no better and Lenovo trackpads are even worse.

I understand that this may be because PC touchpad hardware reports jitter, sometimes higher than it really is, and this causes the Precision Touchpad software to increase the hysteresis. Macbook touchpads have low jitter and the driver is tuned to benefit from it.

If anyone Microsoft with input into the Precision Touchpad reads this, why don't you fix it or work with your licensees to fix it?

Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by jimbokun on Thursday November 12, 2020 @02:52PM (#25074090)
Sounds like exactly the kind of thing you can optimize much easier when you control both the hardware and the software.
Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by neop1x on Friday November 13, 2020 @06:17AM (#25081155)
Like Surface laptops?
Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by moogleii on Thursday November 12, 2020 @11:52AM (#25071721)
Edge to edge uniformity, physical feel, virtual feel of the scroll and motion, gestures. Other than that, sure, same.