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The vast majority of laptops do not have glass trackpads. Off

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The vast majority of laptops do not have glass trackpads. Off the top of my head there's no more than 5 laptops which do. Why do manufacturers continue to make laptops with fucking plastic trackpads which after 6 months of use start to feel like rubber or vinyl? Is it really that hard to include glass trackpads? Apple have been doing it since 2008.

I bought a ThinkPad, a new one, about 1 year ago now and already the textured trackpad lost its texture and is now just shiny and has a lot of friction. Its a terrible user experience. The clitmouse isn't amazing either. Its usually buggy and its self calibration seems to happen way too often. Its not usable for more than a few seconds at a time.

I won't even get on to plastic chassis laptops, that's a clear money saving issue because CNC machining isn't cheap. Plastic wrist rests start to look shit after about 6 months, specially on a black laptop like this ThinkPad. I can't imagine a glass textured mouse costs that much to include though.
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nice blog
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>>58446093
Do people really use touchpads? I feel like a retard when I try to use one.

Wireles mouse always. touchpads are cancer
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>>58446241
you are cancer.
Touchpads can be really great
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>>58446093
My Dell Insipirion 2in1, has a shit trackpad I got it 4 months ago and the texture of the trackpad is gritty as fuck and isn't smooth.

Once OEM's put glass trackpads in their laptops Mactoddlers will go "Oh this isn't all that bad after all!"
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>>58446093
Dear retard,
just buy a piece of cheap chink "plastic" tempered glass with oleophobic coatingfor in the width / size you need, cut it, trim it and stick it to a well cleaned trackpad. Works for me. Fits perfectly, cause I took my sweet time in cutting it properly, and it is perfect.

So, fuck you, spina bifida! Where there is a will, there is a way.
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>>58446093
HP Chromebook 14
your argument is invalid.
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>>58446254
touchpads were designed for teenage girls to browse facebook, use a real peripheral faggot
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>>58446093
My Surface Pro 4 has a glass touchpad and it sucks. The plastic one with the grip tape sticker on my T420s is vastly superior. The touchpad is seriously the reason I'm thinking about taking this thing back to Costco and consigning myself to staring at the shitty screen on my Thinkpad until the end of time.
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>>58446093
Teflon >>>>>>>>> Glass
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>>58446093
I know consumer-grade laptops get a lot of hate here but I've had this for 4 years and I've realized the touchpad feel is amazing. It's comparable to a MacBook.
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>>58446093
Get a macbook pro faggot
even a 2014 is pretty affordable and fast enough for you to browse 4chan
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>>58446093
The dell chromebook 13 is the cheapest laptop that comes with a glass trackpad i think.
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>>58446702
>t. mactoddler
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>>58446093
This is going to change.

T-thanks Microsoft
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Glass doesn't mean anything when they underlying technology is fucking shit.
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>>58446553
I've got a Surface Pro 4 too and I disagree. I really like the trackpad. The glass surface is smooth, although the button may be too rigid considering the relatively flimsy cover (versus a normal laptop).

But where I really think it excels is the software. Microsoft just put out some great drivers for a decent, albeit somewhat small, trackpad.
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>>58446241

>do people use laptops as laptops?

Not everyone uses a laptop at a desk. A good trackpad for anything not to do with photo editing is better than an external mouse.

>>58446502

>touchpads were designed for teenage girls to browse facebook

This is tryhard reaching. Touchpads have been in consumer laptops since 1994 you fucking retard. Its the most obvious and best place to put a pointing device on a laptop.
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>>58446784
Based MS.
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>>58446838

This isn't a fucking Apple hate sperging thread you autistic cunt. Stop looking for any excuse to post this shit over and over. I do not give a single fuck about Mac computers. Let me repeat that, I do not give a single fuck about Mac computers. All I want is a ThinkPad which has a decent mouse. Fuck off with your Mac shit faggot.
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>>58446879
>Its the most obvious and best place to put a pointing device on a laptop.
Wrong.
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>>58446735
>Using Mac meme.

How old are you, 12?
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>>58446967

Yeah, excellent way to argue your point. An early 90s machine that did it once never to be done again. Clearly, that was the correct choice and people loved it so much it was never used again.

Retarded fuck. Anything after the millennium?
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>>58446093
>touchpads
Trackpoint master race.
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>>58446735
>he thinks macs only added glass touchpads in 2011
nigger learn to do a little research
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>>58446784
fucking finally
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>>58446093
>textured trackpad
>glass trackpad
eww
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>>58447092
>t. mactoddler
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I miss these smooth trackpads
The textured ones fucking suck and wear off really quickly
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>>58446735
>Using Mac meme.

How old are you, 12?
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>>58446254
trackpads are cancer
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>>58446919
any thinkpad with a trackpoint has a better than decent mouse
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US
Patent
System

Yes, the law would let you patent a wood door.
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>>58447349
>The worlds biggest economy also has the most retarded laws

Please dear god kill me already
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>>58447342

Try moving one pixel at a time with a trakpoint. You cannot. It can only do broad movements. Its simply an inferior pointing device which was necessary before trackpads were commercially made. It has its uses sometimes, its not totally useless, but if that was my sole method of using a mouse I would need an external mouse.
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>>58447294

What the fuck does anything I said have to do with Macs? Are you braindead? I am a macfag because I want a mouse on a laptop, not some fucking trackball on the right side?
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>>58446967
That's pretty fucking nice actually senpai.
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>>58447376
It's strange how insensible and stiff the new thinkpads trackpoint is when compared to the ancient toshiba ones that I've used. Maybe because those used the old, rough trackpoint caps?
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>>58446419
pics or liar
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>>58446735
My 2008 macbook has a glass trackpad.
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>>58446093
>I won't even get on to plastic chassis laptops, that's a clear money saving issue because CNC machining isn't cheap. Plastic wrist rests start to look shit after about 6 months, specially on a black laptop like this ThinkPad.

ok
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>>58446241
seriously? I bought a TOUCHSCREEN laptop. I TOUCH the SCREEN to do everything. mice are for cancer
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>>58446093
replace the ticker learn to use nipple
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>>58449047
>That pitting
Were you fucking with gallium or something?
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>>58449111
>you must've used it wrong
>t. mactoddler
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>>58449111
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>>58449123
>>58449140
Nah I'm not even a macfag, I've just never seen one pitting like that.

Is salty sweat really all it takes to pit a macbook surface?
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>>58449123
Well you weren't using it right that's for sure.
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hp has great touchpads in their elitebook line
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>>58446093
Why would anyone want a glass trackpad?

That's completely beyond me. Why would people even use the trackpad when they can avoid it?
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>>58446502
Top kek
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>>58450001
>2017
>He still hasn't used an Apple Trackpad under macOS
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