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delta_p_delta_xtoday at 7:18 AM1 replyview on HN

> There’s still a world of difference between a MacBook touchpad and a windows one

Oddly I've found otherwise (Dell Precision notebook from 2021, and Surface Laptop). It might be macOS's animations and smoothing interfering here, but I've found that my Windows touchpads are much more responsive, especially when swiping between desktops.

> The peripherals still need the addons though

Ugh, this is annoying. Hardware vendors need to be banned from writing lousy, inefficient, unsafe software.


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maccardtoday at 7:50 AM

On the trackpads - I only ever use my MacBook as a single screen device, so the experience may be different. A long time ago I used it with an external monitor and the experience was very poor compared to windows.

> Ugh, this is annoying. Hardware vendors need to be banned from writing lousy, inefficient, unsafe software.

Yeah, I commented on the McAfee LG thread but the stuff that comes bundled with hardware is embarassing. I don’t know how Razer, Logitech, nvidia, MSI, asus, etc get away with it. The stuff is awful, even their “good” software. I work in games and a few years ago the biggest correlation we had between unexplained crashes/performance problems in the wild was users having MSI Afterburner installed. Users thought it did great things and fixed a bunch of games but it absolutely thrashed everything we worked very hard to do and caused no end of issues doing so.

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