> appears to come with a pretty poor trackpad in comparison.
What is this trackpad obsession with macbooks? Granted I use mostly a mouse when on my desk but I am mostly a thinkpad user (but I've used dell and hp professionally in the past too) and to me trackpads have been a solved problem for around 2 decades. They work fine. I slide my finger and the pointer move. I use 2 of them and it scrolls, etc.
What is so different on apple trackpads and what do you do with them? whenever I had my hands on a macbook I didn't really felt any significative difference.