I have the new DELL XPS 15. WOW I Hate the large trackpad. It’s soooo annoying. I can no longer move my thumb down and back again without random screens flying around due to gestures cos my palm touches the corner.

Giant trackpads are terrible.

I miss my Lenovo nipple.

That's because Apple does palm rejection correctly. Probably the best in the industry when it comes to any form of touch input.

Honestly, this is just proving my point when I say that non-mac touchpads are terrible. On my Lemur Pro, it the palm rejection was awful, it was so damn annoying how often the cursor would just fly to a different spot while I was typing. Literally has never happened on any of my Macs.

While the palm rejection has failed with me on a MBP. I'm just saying I agree that Palm rejection sucks on non-mac devices and so I have a preference for smaller track pads.

The one on my Lenovo Legion 7 is large, but smaller than the Dell, and the palm rejection is lightyears ahead of the Dell, but still fails. However it doesn't fail enough for me to care because it's so ever slightly smaller than I dont have the bottom of my hand on the corner of the trackpad while typing like I do on the Dell.

Macs detect (99% of the time) when you accidentally brush the pad instead of meaning it.

Can only comment from using someone else’s max because the last one I owned was the MacBook Pro Retina when it first came out and it’s trackpad was smaller than the dell but suffered the same problem. However cos it was smaller it happened far less often. But on the newer larger one it does it too. However palm detection is definitely far better than the dell.

It is very subjective: For me the smaller the better, if you give a track point instead. I do not understand why people want to move there hand so much while working...

Honestly most of the reason I like a big touchpad is gestures. On mac especially. Switching desktops is 3 fingers to the side. My fingers aren't that small, it's a lot easier to do it on a big trackpad. I never really practiced with a track point when I had one, so I was maddeningly imprecise. Having a big touch pad lets me have more room for error on cursor movement. To do that I have to move my hand slightly more to get to the center of the pad. As you said it's subjective.