[dhruvmittal]

I've very happily left a Mac touchpad. Not once but twice. While the gesture support in the OS is nice, I don't like how big the touchpads are. I feel like it regularly gets in the way of typing. I'm okay with the size of the trackpad on the Framework laptop, but it could have been smaller. I really miss my old Thinkpad trackpad with the physical buttons between the trackpad and spacebar, which I felt was really usable.

[ArchOversight]

Apple's touch detection for when you place your hands on the touchpad while typing is top-notch though.

It's what allows them to make the touchpad so big, while still making the keyboard easily accessible.

[whatch]

> I feel like it regularly gets in the way of typing

I understand that everyone's experience can be different. But wow I just noticed that my palms are so often on the touchpad while I'm typing and I have never ever had any problem with that.

Also I usually use my thumb to move cursor and click while other fingers stay on the keys and I cannot remember when it didn't behave according to my intentions. Especially considering the bigger contact area between a thumb and touchpad compared to other fingers.

I just checked edge cases and it works very reliably. Cursor doesn't move if I use my palm. It does move if palm is on the touchpad and I use my thumb. It does move as expected if I move both thumb and palm over touchpad synchronously. It follows the thumb as expected if I move both my thumb and palm in different directions.

I remember my first touchpad on macbook air 13 from 2011. It felt so much better than anything I tried before. But at that time it was physical and it had dead zone at the top of the touchpad. And it was smaller. Today's touchpad macbook pro touchpad is an engineering marvel.

[SamuelAdams]

For me it’s not about how big it is. The MacBook trackpads feel very precise. I rarely mis-click a part of my screen because my cursor drifted too far.

[tibbon]

Same. Even clicking, alone right clicking, is super awkward for some reason on my partner's computer (I can't recall the brand, Asus or such). On my mac, it seems flawless.

[fsckboy]

Trackpoint

[avidphantasm]

I hated how big the trackpad on my 2019 16” MBP was. I now have a 2021 14” M1 Pro and the trackpad is the perfect size. I believe they also reduced the size of the 16” M* Pro/Max machines.