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These may be functional and fully Linux-compatible and whatever, but the key for me is this: does its trackpad compare to that of the MacBook Pro?

Oh, it doesn't? You mean I'll have to carry around an external mouse to compensate for the lackluster trackpad? You mean one of the two ways I interact with my computer is clunky at best and non-functional at worst compared to the best one on the market?

Sorry. No dice.

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I'm glad I'm not the only one perplexed by the utterly astoundingly bad trackpad drivers on literally every platform but OSX. I just don't get it. How can so many people working on trackpad software produce such sub-par junk, while Apple's is literally competitive to (if not better than in some cases) a desktop mouse.

I don't know about Windows folks, but as a Linux user I rarely touch the mouse except while using a web browser, and point-and-click is all I need there. In fact my Thinkpad has a convenient middle mouse button just above the track pad that's super-convenient for opening links in a new tab.

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