The new MacBook

Re:The new MacBook by screamin_jesus on Monday March 09, 2015 @11:09PM (#9175774)

The one area where apple really exels though, in both hardware and software is the touchpad. I cannot stand using the touchpad on any windows laptop I used, the touchpad is 99% the reason I still use a mac/osx.

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Re:The new MacBook by otakucode on Tuesday March 10, 2015 @11:15AM (#9178151)

The only experience I have with OSX is toying around with a little Mac Mini. What is special about Apple's touchpad? I'm honestly curious.

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Re:The new MacBook by screamin_jesus on Tuesday March 10, 2015 @11:50AM (#9178367)

Near perfect gestures integration, and the touchpad behaves very consistently and reliably system wide (osx has system wide smooth/responsive scrolling for example), and the touchpad hardware itself is just very nice and pleasant to use.

Windows touchpads are usually all over the place in my experience, mostly due to drivers/windows' poor touchpad support. super basic stuff like 2 finger scrolling is often very janky and unreliable on the windows laptops I've used. I had actually ended up switching from windows to linux on my previous laptops because the touchpad even worked better under ubuntu than it did under windows.

I love windows on my desktop PC, but I cannot stand on using windows on a laptop

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Re:The new MacBook by thanksgiving on Wednesday March 11, 2015 @09:48AM (#9184016)

If one has never used computers like my Lenovo Ideapad y510p ore previously my Asus laptop and had to wrestle with the Synaptic/eLan drivers but rather only ever used a Macbook their entire lives, they would not realize how terribly bad touchpads can be.

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Re:The new MacBook by neoromantique on Tuesday March 10, 2015 @05:11AM (#9176745)

IBM's trackpoint is killer.

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