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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

you may be surprised to know that crap touch-pads are the majority of touchpads and even moreso in the future since old thinkpads are slowly going away

Companies like Asus and HP ship proper touchpads.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Some of those are still terrible. Compare any of them to my 2011 macbook and they will loose badly

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

300€ HP 255 G8 works very well, the physical buttons below the pad feel like they'll fall apart with every press as they are only hinged somewhere in the middle

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

My apologies, it seems we do not have the same definition of proper touchpads, of all the laptop brands in the world, asus and hp are amongst the few that I would consider unsuitable including their touchpads which are the most basic low grade pads i can think of, maybe their more than a grand models are better