For all intents and purposes, a M-Series MacBook running Parallels is the best Windows laptop you can buy. I say this as a Windows productivity maximalist.
It’s 2022 and Windows touchpads and touchpad drivers don’t hold a candle to my 2011 MacBook.
It’s 2022 and Windows touchpads and touchpad drivers don’t hold a candle to my 2011 MacBook.
What, specifically, is the problem with touchpads on windows?
- Mac touchpads have near-perfect wrist detection so you almost never get an errant input.
- There is virtually no input lag. It’s especially crucial when scrolling long pages. On a Mac, you can flick the touchpad and the page will scroll all the way down.
- Furthermore, they perfectly recognize up to 10 fingers. There’s a lot of great software that allows you to set shortcuts to different mouse gestures like 3-,4-, 5-finger swipes, tip-taps, and more.
- There’s a really smooth acceleration curve that allows you to be extremely precise with the mouse while also allowing it to span great distances when needed.
Like the other poster said, there are so many subtle differences that amount to a gargantuan delta between the two experiences.
I don't perceive any lag on both my thinkpad and my pro admitedly crappy Dell laptop on Linux when scrolling anything and I don't recall having felt a significant difference with windows when it was last fired up or on Mac laptops I tried in the past. Most of the difference usually came from a difference in the speed and acceleration settings but these are configurables.
Can't speak about gestures because that is something most people don't use.
1. when I type only the tip of my fingers enter in contact with the laptop, my wrists are in the air.
2. if I rest my hands on the laptop they sit on both side of the trackpad, not on it.
The acceleration is okay on the touchpad, but the fact that it carries over to the mouse as well is an abomination.
Some specific issues though I have seen is general lack of responsiveness or missing the first bit of movement and no gestures or gestures that just don’t work as well.
I only ever miss two apps from macOS: Preview and LaTeXiT.