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465 points susanthenerd | 1 comments | 26 Aug 25 15:12 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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nrp ◴[26 Aug 25 15:35 UTC] No.45028012[source]▶
I'm happy to answer questions around the new product.
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Deuter8 ◴[26 Aug 25 15:39 UTC] No.45028056[source]▶
I literally just want a touchpad with buttons. These new 'clickpads' are the bane of my existence. They are so much slower, and certain workflows are impossible. I must use an external mouse now with modern laptops.

Why can no laptop manufacturer even make this an option?

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iknowstuff ◴[26 Aug 25 15:49 UTC] No.45028200[source]▶
I’ve never missed having buttons on the macbook trackpad lol

How are they slower/impossible?

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jayd16 ◴[26 Aug 25 15:55 UTC] No.45028289[source]▶
I assume some gestures are simply not possible. Like click-to-drag and scroll simultaneously. Not every app handles gutter-hover-to-scroll in a usable way. On a mouse or a pad with buttons, you can keep the left click held down and scroll with the wheel or gesture. Uni-pads make this impossible.
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panzerboiler ◴[26 Aug 25 16:11 UTC] No.45028533[source]▶
You assume it wrong. You can click-to-drag and scroll simultaneously without issues on an Apple trackpad.
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1. nagisa ◴[26 Aug 25 22:17 UTC] No.45033051[source]▶
I have the external apple trackpad (the most recent usb-c version at that) and this click-to-drag and then attempting to scroll does not work on Linux. Seems like this might have been a particular attention to detail on part of macOS devs.

As far as I know touchpad implementations just report finger locations and its up to software to interpret what a combination of these gestures means.