Microsoft to Require Precision Touchpads in Future Windows 10 Laptops
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Re: Microsoft to Require Precision Touchpads in Future Windows 10 Laptops
#2This 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.
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#3I haven't tried the Surface Book, but you're lucky if you can even fit three or more fingers on the trackpads on the Surface Pro. Maybe MS could show some leadership there as well.
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#4What is a Precision Touchpad? Is it some sort of Microsoft designed touchpad? Is it a certain bar the laptop manufacturers have to meet in order to call their touchpads "Precision"?
Re: Microsoft to Require Precision Touchpads in Future Windows 10 Laptops
#5What is a Precision Touchpad? Is it some sort of Microsoft designed touchpad? Is it a certain bar the laptop manufacturers have to meet in order to call their touchpads "Precision"?
>Precision Touchpad made its debut with Windows 8. Co-developed between Microsoft and touchpad company Synaptics, the spec changed how Windows works with touchpads. Traditionally, touchpads masqueraded to Windows as essentially USB- or PS/2-connected mice—simple two-dimension, single-input devices. Features such as multitouch and gestures were handled by a combination of the touchpad firmware and proprietary drivers. This meant that Windows itself had no ability to add new gestures or refine the finger-detection algorithms; it was all an opaque feature of the third-party drivers.
>With Precision Touchpad, the raw touchpad input is exposed to Windows itself, allowing the operating system to choose how it handles the complex multi-finger inputs. The gestures, the disambiguation of taps and swipes—these are all now performed by Windows, not a third-party driver.
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/10/pc-oems-ditch-the-cus...
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#6I am surprised to see the Latitude 14 in the list of laptops with precision touchpads. Fingerprint readers and touchpad aren't a strength of the latitude laptops I owned so far.
Re: Microsoft to Require Precision Touchpads in Future Windows 10 Laptops
#7What is a Precision Touchpad? Is it some sort of Microsoft designed touchpad? Is it a certain bar the laptop manufacturers have to meet in order to call their touchpads "Precision"?
>Precision Touchpad made its debut with Windows 8. Co-developed between Microsoft and touchpad company Synaptics, the spec changed how Windows works with touchpads. Traditionally, touchpads masqueraded to Windows as essentially USB- or PS/2-connected mice—simple two-dimension, single-input devices. Features such as multitouch and gestures were handled by a combination of the touchpad firmware and proprietary drivers.…
Wow. I hope this means we can finally have a separate set of sensitivity & acceleration settings for touchpads vs mice.
Re: Microsoft to Require Precision Touchpads in Future Windows 10 Laptops
#8I am surprised to see the Latitude 14 in the list of laptops with precision touchpads. Fingerprint readers and touchpad aren't a strength of the latitude laptops I owned so far.
I was interested too with the Latitudes. The article is vague, but it does mention latest models.
I just picked up an e7440 - new but a few generations old - from the Dell business outlet. The touchpad (along with the battery) is the biggest weak point of the laptop. It works somewhat okay with Win 10, but it is awful on Linux using recent kernels on Fedora 25.
But I tend to use a MBP at work, and the touchpad on it is just so much better. I don't even bother with a mouse with the Mac as OSX really integrates the trackpad well. I am much happier with a decent wireless mouse with the Latitude.
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#9precision touchpads are useless if the software doesnt support it. the trackpad in the surface pro is not very smooth when scrolling in chrome.
Re: Microsoft to Require Precision Touchpads in Future Windows 10 Laptops
#10precision touchpads are useless if the software doesnt support it. the trackpad in the surface pro is not very smooth when scrolling in chrome.
sure, but generally if capabilities exist in the hardware applications will arise to take advantage of those capabilities.