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Is the trackpad bigger on the Macbook than the rMBP?

mxidis88

mxidis88

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I was wondering what the dimensions of the trackpad are on the nMB. I believe it's the same size as the 13" Air or rMBP, but it looks bigger in pictures. Does anyone have any hard info on the size of the trackpad?
 
I'd bet it's the same size. It probably looks bigger because the laptop as a whole is smaller (28.05 cm wide).

Assuming Apple's marketing pictures are accurate, you could figure out the trackpad size from them.
 
I'm not an expert in how this is usually done, but logically I think this would work.

I used the ruler tool in photoshop to determine that the trackpad is 40.12% of the width of the macbook (using the photo that shows it from an overhead view.

The MacBook according to the tech specs page is 11.04 inches wide. That makes the trackpad 4.43 inches wide.

Doing the same thing with the 13" MacBook Pro Retina, I got that the trackpad is 33.2% of the width of the computer.

Doing the same math that makes the trackpad on the macbook pro retina 4.10 inches wide. If the official specs for that have been posted somewhere, you can use that to figure out how close I am with these measurements, but I couldn't find them anywhere.

So I'm guessing that the trackpad in the MacBook is slightly wider than the one in the MacBook Pro.
 
appleguy123 said:
I'm not an expert in how this is usually done, but logically I think this would work.

I used the ruler tool in photoshop to determine that the trackpad is 40.12% of the width of the macbook (using the photo that shows it from an overhead view.

The MacBook according to the tech specs page is 11.04 inches wide. That makes the trackpad 4.43 inches wide.

Doing the same thing with the 13" MacBook Pro Retina, I got that the trackpad is 33.2% of the width of the computer.

Doing the same math that makes the trackpad on the macbook pro retina 4.10 inches wide. If the official specs for that have been posted somewhere, you can use that to figure out how close I am with these measurements, but I couldn't find them anywhere.

So I'm guessing that the trackpad in the MacBook is slightly wider than the one in the MacBook Pro.
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That goes against what I would expect.
 
Thanks. Yea it definitely looks wider in the pics by about that much. I wonder what the utility would be?
 
Going by the images:

The MacBook's trackpad is 2.66" tall.

MacBook Pro's is 2.97" Tall.

MacBook=4.43*2.66=11.78 square inches.

MacBook Pro=4.1*2.97=12.18 square inches

So the MacBook Pro's is slightly bigger in terms of total area, but the MacBook's is wider.
 
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