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But why is the Track Pad So large ? Bad design bad use of space.
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And they suck. They are usually plastic and grabby. I use much more of my Mac trackpad in part just because my finger glides over it so well.
The trackpad is roughly similar in size to the stand alone trackpad that you can get with an iMac. You can actually rest your finger(s) or edge of your hand on it and it "magically" behaves just like there is nothing there. I leave my thumb on there all the time as its more comfortable and the trackpad simply knows to ignore it. I think everyone is freaking out over nothing. Having more space to slide your fingers is actually helpful.
Someone else mentioned it, but it would be cool in future laptops if the entire area underneath the keyboard was one huge trackpad, even better if the 'touch-bar' technology could be implemented as part if it.
For now, when they showed the new MBP with the large trackpad in the keynote, I became excited at the prospect of Apple Pencil support (which I have for the iPad Pro), and was quite surprised/disappointed to find it wasn't there.
It does make me wonder - as they kinda glossed over the trackpad size increase a bit ('more room for gestures' seemed a bit of a weak use-case) - if the intention was to offer Pencil support, but for some reason this feature was pulled later on. Hopefully that IS the case, and a future MacOS release will enable it. It would have certainly - along with the touch-bar - gone some way to rationalise the additional cost.
For now, when they showed the new MBP with the large trackpad in the keynote, I became excited at the prospect of Apple Pencil support (which I have for the iPad Pro), and was quite surprised/disappointed to find it wasn't there.
It does make me wonder - as they kinda glossed over the trackpad size increase a bit ('more room for gestures' seemed a bit of a weak use-case) - if the intention was to offer Pencil support, but for some reason this feature was pulled later on. Hopefully that IS the case, and a future MacOS release will enable it. It would have certainly - along with the touch-bar - gone some way to rationalise the additional cost.
Your second point; oh isn't that the truth. My wife has a windows gaming laptop that she uses and I can't stand it. It does everything except what I want it to do, cursor juts around. It's a touch screen too, which is somehow even more useless. I hate it. Constantly right clicking when I don't want to, etc.
The thing about Apple trackpads is they just work. I don't even think about it. It just always does what I want it to do.
I never for one second thought the cursor movement wasn't precise enough.
Gotta love the fanboy.
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It doesn't always do what you want. At least not in my case.
It misses more tap-click than I can remember on a pc machine. And by watching one the Touch ID bar demonstration on YouTube, its clear Touch ID bar has the same exact problem.
You can say a quick second tap-click will solve it, but you said it just works.
Even for a three-finger swipe the old trackpad is a little crammed. But what's more important, the mouse pointer on a 16:10 screen should be controlled with a 16:10 trackpad. And guess what's the ratio of the new larger trackpad?
Whenever someone one has something positive to say about Apple products on this forum they get called a fanboy... good grief. Cant you just accept that someone might have a different opinion without calling people names?
Can't wait to use it with the larger trackpad. I have one for my iMac and the larger surface is excellent to have and use.
Did I say it wasn't precise enough?
Anyway, just because you think its precise enough, doesn't mean it can't become more precise.
I had no issue with the previous trackpad, and won't have an issue with the new bigger one.
Even if I were an Apple fanboy, I don't find being a fanboy is something negative at all.
I bet you're a fanboy in some other area like soccer, which I'm not.
But just because I'm not an soccer fan, I don't start pointing at others.
Get a life and grow up!
I agree with the OP. I see no benefit to the trackpad being larger. The old one was perfect - now will have to use bigger gestures surely. I would rather they left it the same size and had made a better keyboard
Well, yes, they will never be able to satisfy everybody, and there will always exist people who says
"Why this and not that?" Good that they still have other options to build on...
Personally, I will probably miss the F1-F10 keys for a while in a Shell, e.g. after connecting to Linux and FreeBSD machines. I hope Apple worked out a good way around this, and I also hope to get used to this new situation quickly.
But I can't imagine the Humanity using F-Keys in year 3265, too.
So, someday they have to go anyway.