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Why would you want haptic trackpads? Having used modern Macbook trackpads they feel like a massive downgrade compared to either of my Frameworks. The vibration-based simulation of haptics feels uncanny and unsatisfying compared to the real deal.

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Strongly disagree. MacBook haptic trackpads feel plenty natural to me and don’t suffer the weird inconsistency issues that plague traditional trackpads. I say this even as someone who uses a machine with a traditional trackpad everyday and has a new FW13 reserved. If Framework ever offered a haptic trackpad upgrade I’d buy it.

Why would you want a diving board trackpad? Every single non haptic trackpad I've tried always sucks, requiring excessive force to press a button, particularly if you're not on the very bottom of the doving board mechanism of the trackpad.

And here I sit, longing for the days when trackpads had separate, physical buttons underneath them.

With diving board trackpads, I usually just tap to click.

Physically pressing down a diving board is just asking for frustration. Sometimes I miss the separate left, right, and middle click buttons under the trackpad like the old days.

If you pretend that the click buttons are still there, you can press down a diving board just fine. You use your fingers to move, and the thumb to click. The problem is that this is totally unintuitive to anyone who grew up without visible buttons.

do people actually use their thumb to click ?? i always just used the other pointer

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