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Trackpad buttons are a crutch for trackpads that can't reject small cursor movements while clicking the tracking surface.


Indeed, I hate trackpad buttons with a passion. Waste of space, when you could have fit a larger trackpad in the same area.


Interesting. I hear people like Apple's laptops, yet I despise the pad. Requires too much force to click (and how do you get middle/right without pressing down?). OTOH those machines run super hot and have poor keyboards and folks still like them. Perhaps some people aren't bothered by things like that?


On an apple laptop I use my middle and ring fingers for scrolling, my index or middle finger for pointing, and my thumb for clicking. I click with my thumb while holding the pad with my middle and ring finger for right-click. You gotta click near the bottom because they're hinged across the top.

The inadvertent movement rejection is so good you can just leave your four fingers on the pad without thinking about switching between them.


I'm pretty sure the force required to click can be adjusted in the latest models.




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