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This seems like a great move to me. I started using a 2016 Razer Stealth, and the worst thing about it is the Synaptics Touch crapware they include to configure the touch pad.
How is the trackpad otherwise, though?
Microsoft should release their own multi-touch touchpad with this tech and call it the Surface Touchpad or something along those lines. Basically their equivalent of the Apple Magic Trackpad. It's what I miss when I've got my Surface Book docked, having come from a MBP/Magic Trackpad setup.
The trackpads built into the Surface computers are still nowhere near the level of Apple's.
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How "new" are we talking here? Dell's XPS line has had precision touchpads since the beginning of 2015.
Even Microsoft's own flagship Surface Book has a touch pad which is abysmal compared to what MBP offered on it's debut. I constantly experience issues ranging from jerky movements to completely failing to scroll until rebooted on my Surface Book. It's mind blowing that this still happens in 2016.
Microsoft should release their own multi-touch touchpad with this tech and call it the Surface Touchpad or something along those lines. Basically their equivalent of the Apple Magic Trackpad. It's what I miss when I've got my Surface Book docked, having come from a MBP/Magic Trackpad setup.
Indeed they should! I'd like to have a good pointer that I can glue to my keyboard and use leaned back. I'd also like to configure what the gestures mean; there's no way to make three finger tap act like middle click. I use a Surface Pro 4. Microsoft has been very heavy handed about insisting you gesture only the way they want you to gesture. I really don't need a gesture to launch an already-disabled Cortana.
See https://www.thurrott.com/mobile/microsoft-surface/7232/surfa...
Wish there were other things I could set it to though.
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The trackpads built into the Surface computers are still nowhere near the level of Apple's.
I disagree, having used both the Surface trackpads are honestly my favorite. The only thing I wish they had was more customizable software
[1] https://www.thurrott.com/mobile/microsoft-surface/7232/surfa...
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They're already out there, such as in the Dell XPS 13. IIRC some of the features work better with libinput.
I wonder if I can use gestures like I do on macOS for things like switching desktops.
https://github.com/bulletmark/libinput-gestures https://github.com/iberianpig/fusuma
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FWIW - On the last Thinkpad I bought (the X220) the touchpad was notably worse under than Windows with the official vendor drivers compared with Linux using whatever came out of the box. Two finger scrolling comes to mind - on Linux it worked smoothly, but with Windows, there was a considerable lag between me scrolling on the touchpad, and scrolling actually happening in the application.
I've noticed the same thing with my T530. The Windows drivers for the Thinkpad also don't let you set the middle trackpoint button to middle-click. There was a way to get it to work by editing the registry, but that's stopped working in recent versions too. I don't understand why Lenovo keeps putting out user-hostile driver updates for Windows. I don't see how it benefits Lenovo, so I guess it's just total incompeten…