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> And here we are, and the Pencil STILL doesn't work on the defectively oversized trackpads on Apple laptops. Many (including me) argue that Apple sells the best trackpads ever made, the size being a key attribute.
That and the excellent palm rejection. Probably why other manufactures didn't make track pads as large
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And here we are, and the Pencil STILL doesn't work on the defectively oversized trackpads on Apple laptops. So... we're talking about more than one blunder here.
Calling Apple’s trackpad defective and/oversized has got to be one of the most tone-deaf and uninformed things I’ve seen this year. Please.
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What product are you referring to? One where you can’t use USB-C headphones or an adapter?
Not while you're charging.
I’ve got a MagSafe nightstand and powerbank that both leave the port free. I do use Bluetooth for audio so I don’t actually ever use the USB-C port at all.
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I can move my cursor across my entire screen without lifting my wrist with the trackpad. It is vastly easier than tapping at a screen.
And requires a LOT less effort too. There simply is no real benefit to a touchscreen on a laptop. It’s ridiculous. It’s the phablet of laptops. Insane.
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> And here we are, and the Pencil STILL doesn't work on the defectively oversized trackpads on Apple laptops. Many (including me) argue that Apple sells the best trackpads ever made, the size being a key attribute.
Then they're not paying attention to how little of the pad they actually use, and the irritating-as-hell spurious presses that can cost you several minutes (or more) of work. There's nothing like filling out a form (or comment) on a Web page to have it suddenly reload or back-page, deleting everything you entered.
I absolutely loathed non-Apple ones when I had to use them, the palm detection was completely useless and the cursor just swooshed around. I usually disabled the touchpad in the BIOS and just used the red nipple-mouse on Lenovos instead.
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Calling Apple’s trackpad defective and/oversized has got to be one of the most tone-deaf and uninformed things I’ve seen this year. Please.
Then you obviously don't do much work with it.
You must have some weirdly conductive palms or something.
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My iPad is mounted next to my Macs. I use it as a media player, checking deliveries, personal messages when I'm on my work laptop, and such. All of that is done via touch. When I need to flip over to my Mac to do the same thing, I have to use a 40 year old interface (a mouse). It's not hard. I don't think we need to make everything touch-size on Mac. Small icons & buttons are perfectly fine in a production environmen…
> I have to use a 40 year old interface (a mouse) …yeah, and? Should we just drop mouse’s and keyboards now because they’re “old interfaces”? C’mon, please. I’m not sure how old you are but you sound like you grew up with an iPad in your hand.
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strange. Some keyboard shortcuts in os x are kinda weird and not intuitive to linux or windows users, but they are there. It's totally possible to use mac without trackpad. even cmd+tab switcher has a lot of hidden (but googlable) things: while still holding cmd after initial cmd+tab, you can close apps with q, switch to other apps with tab and (cmd+)shift+tab or left/right arrows, show app windows with down, etc. Th…
> totally possible to use mac without trackpad As I discover every time I have a mouse fail, it is exceptionally difficult to use a modern Mac without a pointer device because at some point, it became quite difficult to get from (eg) the settings nav panel to the settings panel. I can CMD+SPACE to open spotlight, type 'Settings' to get to a settings panel, type 'Bluetooth' to open the bluetooth settings, and where I…
do you have "Settings > Keyboard > Keyboard navigation" on? I thought it is on by default, but apparently it isn't. Without it "tab" only jumps between text fields and checkboxes.
There's also an "Accessibility > Keyboard > Full keyboard access", which gives more controls.
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Why though? What compels you to even want that?
My iPad is mounted next to my Macs. I use it as a media player, checking deliveries, personal messages when I'm on my work laptop, and such. All of that is done via touch. When I need to flip over to my Mac to do the same thing, I have to use a 40 year old interface (a mouse). It's not hard. I don't think we need to make everything touch-size on Mac. Small icons & buttons are perfectly fine in a production environmen…
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And requires a LOT less effort too. There simply is no real benefit to a touchscreen on a laptop. It’s ridiculous. It’s the phablet of laptops. Insane.
I find it lends a lot to the flexibility of the device --- but I'm using a touchscreen on a convertible which I can flatten out into a tablet w/ keyboard to one side or the other, or fully reverse into an expansive tablet.