Make My Iphone The Touchpad For My Mac Touchpad Frustrating#

Make My Iphone The Touchpad For My Mac Touchpad Frustrating

PTI recently tried switching from an MBP to an X1 Carbon, in a yet another attempt to switch to Linux as my daily driver. The trackpad firmware & driver, the display compositor, the hardware cursor overlay (or lack thereof) combine to give you the total latency which makes using a non-mac touchpad frustrating.In just a few steps, you can turn your iPhone (or any iOS device) into a keyboard and mouse to control your computer from a distance. All of that together, the end-to-end latency between moving your finger and the result appearing on screen.

I think part of the reason Apple has done well with touch is that they just prioritized it and tried harder at it.1- Apple puts much bigger trackpads on their machines. The biggest difference was that the Mac trackpad was about 30% larger.Apple also invested in touch concept company-wide, including gestures in their marketing and shipping a trackpad as a first-class option for desktops in 2010. I had an iBook from before this time and while the trackpad was nice, I did not think it was way better than my PC laptop's trackpad. We now know that the tablet/phone project kicked into high gear around this time as well.I think this is really where Apple took a big step in their trackpads across the board. Probably not a coincidence. Fingerworks touch keyboards and trackpads worked extremely well and supported complex gestures using up to 5 fingers.The 2005 Powerbook was the first to support multi-finger input on the trackpad.

No wonder it's been (often poorly) copied by basically everyone else.I don't doubt that some PCs have very good trackpads, but Apple's has been consistently a pleasure to use on every Mac I've used, to the point that I don't bother carrying my mouse when I travel with my laptop.Look at the external power supplies and the packaging thereof in the box to see the difference in ethos and approach.Even these вЂњniceвЂќ PC laptops still come with a PSU that has ugly plastic-coated white wraparound paper stickers and labels on the black cords with meaningless unimportant shit on them (leaving oily adhesive residue on the cord even if you cut it off), bricks in the middle of the cable (AC and DC lines out opposing ends), plastic twist ties, in plastic baggies covered in meaningless production stickers. 2-finger scrolling feels way more natural than using the side of the trackpad. I don't know, it 'just works', whereas PC trackpads would often lose track of my finger, forcing me to repeat the movement while pressing harder.4- The multi-touch is great. I've often used PC trackpads where you were expected to scroll using the right side of the trackpad, but it was basically unusable because the plastic bezel was in the way.3- The finger tracking is phenomenal. The Surface Pro's trackpad looks like it's about 2/3 the size of my MBP, and half the size of the latest MBPs.2- The trackpads are flush with the body of the machine.

I don't understand why you think they take up more than one outlet.If your power strip's ports are arranged sideways I guess it might be OK, though then they're prone to 'tipping' out of the port if bumped. Maybe they've fixed it but I distinctly remember receiving a brand new MBP shortly after the all-USB-C shift that had a uselessly short included cable and no AC cord included.> I appreciate the compact nature of the Apple brick. There are ones that are merely вЂњgoodвЂќ (Razer Blade), none вЂњgreatвЂќ (though the Pixelbook Eve comes close!), and zero have ever been insanely so, AFAIK.> Why do you need such a comically long power cable?The USB-C cable in the box is, what, one meter? That won't even reach through a cable-hole in a desk down to the floor. ItвЂ™s startlingly good, sound I never thought IвЂ™d hear out of a laptop.IвЂ™m at a place in life where I have broken my iMessage dependency and find KDE to be delightful I would absolutely love to pay a premium for an equivalent quality PC laptop, but there arenвЂ™t any in the ballpark, even. There are very few machines that even remotely aspire the level of care Apple puts into their each and every product.Apple also just overhauled the speaker system in the 16вЂќ rMBP, making it easily 50% better than any laptop IвЂ™ve ever heard.

That's the root cause, and it manifests itself as everything from building relatively decent computers and then shipping them with ugly accessories, to using plastic trackpads, to not pushing back against Intel's ugly marketing case sticker demands, et c et c et c ad nauseam.It's like buying an $80k car and on delivery suddenly finding out it doesn't have keyless entry, or that the brand new key fob is shipped in one of those hand-slicingly-difficult wraparound plastic blister containers.Come to think of it, the key fobs on high end cars shouldn't be made out of cheap plastic, either. The large, ugly stickers on the bottom have important things like serial on them, so you can't remove those if you ever want your warranty to work (Apple, of course, laser etches the serial into the aluminum case in small type).Why was any of that useless shit shipped to me in the first place, on a high end computer?It's not about the hang tag, it's about a fundamental lack of empathy for the customer and their experience. And I'm looking at one for a 2014 Magsafe model right nowвЂ”the ones on newer MacBooks are even larger (I have those, too) even my iPad Pro charger is longer than one outlet and blocks the second, and it's smaller than any MacBook Pro or even Air brick I've seen.I have a lot of hardware, so I have spent a lot of time doing precisely that.Cutting off twist ties, removing those pointless little white HDPE condoms they put on the blades of the AC plug, plastic bags, more plastic bags, the sticky superthin protection plastic film that almost every china manufacturing plant puts on any shiny plastic flat surface, peeling keyboard stickers, carefully applying goo gone to remove the glue, then glass cleaner to remove the goo gone, cutting the stupid labels off of AC cords (being careful not to damage the cord in the process), et c.You also have to be careful not to scratch the case with the metallic wrist rest stickers when removing them, as well, because the corners are sharp and the glue is serious so you have to pry them up with a tool. I don't understand how you could look at it and not think it takes up two since it just is for sure longer than one port, unless plugged into the one on the very end.

Over time this gets damaged and eventually the cord stops working. Usually the sheath by the end will get squeezed off of the insulation and expose the wiring. Every apple cable I've had has failed after a few years. Step up, hardware makers.In time, my friend.

Most of my old magsafe cables that have seen years of service look like zebras with all the black gaffer tape patches I've had to put on them, but they work at least. Small pinches turn into a crack that becomes a gaping hole, and can also be a point of failure.