Force Touch Impressions a Few Months Later, what is the Verdict?

[bigpizza]

But your finger is moving, isn't it? When I tried them out at the Apple Store, the trackpads still definitely move up and down. Less so perhaps than the old ones but they definitely still move. It isn't the movement that provides the click feel, but I'd disagree it feels like touching a screen.

That's correct. When you shut down the computer and push hard, it's probably going to flex. But in normal usage, the pressure that you apply is insufficient to induce flex. Hence the synthetic feeling.

 

[throAU]

Your finger definitely moves, the pad does flex a little.

but it doesn't CLICK (the movement is smooth, if that makes sense?), the clicking is 100% artificial and generated by the haptic feedback vibration.

 

[Taz Mangus]

Your finger definitely moves, the pad does flex a little.

but it doesn't CLICK (the movement is smooth, if that makes sense?), the clicking is 100% artificial and generated by the haptic feedback vibration.

That is the part that I find most fascinating, the haptic feedback. To me it feel and sounds exactly like a real click. I really like being able to press anywhere on the trackpad to click. A brilliant piece of technology that certainly make using the computer that much nicer and convient.