[juggerl3]

One of the last to fall to the 'clickpad' trend. Soon nobody will remember a time of serviceable laptop touchpads with physical buttons where you could precisely and efficiently accomplish real work; a time before the ubiquitous featureless expanse of a clickpad where erratic drivers reduce your interface to vague suggestions to the OS. What's the point of laptops if we have to plug in an external mouse anyway?

[futuraperdita]

I have a haptic touchpad on my current X1 Carbon and actually don't mind it. The ancient Haswell-generation clickpads were terrible but the Sensel ones are underappreciated.

[sublinear]

I would argue the real problem with clickpads is that they're a cost cutting measure (even the ones on macbooks). People were fed up with accidental taps, and manufacturers didn't want to pay more for a better trackpad.

The other evil part about trackpads is drivers that don't let you turn off the pointer acceleration because to do so would reveal how jittery the sensors really are.

This is why even now and even on the highest end laptops you must still either slow down your fingers or put up with endless overshooting/undershooting of the cursor movement. I deeply despise how "heavy" and slow the cursor feels on all macbooks for at least the past decade. This is the real reason why the fucking clickpad has to be so massive!

[happyopossum]

> where you could precisely and efficiently accomplish real work

Uhh, millions of people "precisely and efficiently accomplish real work" on MacBooks every day. Moving back to a tiny trackpad or nubbin with fixed location buttons feels incredibly inefficient and gross now...