MacBook’s touchpads will always beat Windows laptops’ touchpads. The MacBook touchpad is a slab of textured glass over metal with a nice grip. The cursor moves smoothly and it recognizes a range of smartphone-like multitouch gestures with no problem. Even people who dislike mouse touchpads like the MacBook’s mouse touchpad.
Since 2008, Apple has held a patent on its touchpad design, covering a bunch of different MacBook models. That patent is both for the process it uses to prepare the glass for that signature texture, as well as the actual mechanical way it clicks down. It doesn’t mean that nobody else can make a trackpad, or a glass trackpad, or even a minor variation on Apple’s trackpad. But it means that they can’t do it exactly like Apple without risking legal action. More importantly, Apple takes full charge of the MacBook’s design and manufacturing process, from hardware to software. From MacBook to MacBook, the touchpad is exactly the same, and built to the same exact specifications.
Meanwhile, Microsoft is dealing with a moving target. Different laptops have different touchpads. In fact, cost-conscious manufacturers may use two different brands of touchpad from two different suppliers in the same model. It makes it a lot more complicated for Windows to “talk” to a touchpad. In 2013, Microsoft partnered up with Intel, along with prominent touchpad hardware suppliers Synaptics and Elan, for what it called “Precision Touchpads.” With Windows 8.1 and a Precision Touchpad, users would get smoother mouse scrolling and better support for multitouch gestures. But because every laptop is slightly different, and because manufactuers like Dell and Lenovo love to put their own software preloaded on the computers that they sell, there were all kinds of compatibility issues.
Now, the best way to use Windows 10 for that ideal touchpad experience might be with a MacBook……
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