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Microsoft should release their own multi-touch touchpad with this tech and call it the Surface Touchpad or something along those lines. Basically their equivalent of the Apple Magic Trackpad. It's what I miss when I've got my Surface Book docked, having come from a MBP/Magic Trackpad setup.

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Indeed they should! I'd like to have a good pointer that I can glue to my keyboard and use leaned back.

I'd also like to configure what the gestures mean; there's no way to make three finger tap act like middle click. I use a Surface Pro 4. Microsoft has been very heavy handed about insisting you gesture only the way they want you to gesture. I really don't need a gesture to launch an already-disabled Cortana.

You can set three finger tap to do "nothing" instead of Cortana. You just need to goto the touchpad settings screen.

See https://www.thurrott.com/mobile/microsoft-surface/7232/surfa...

Wish there were other things I could set it to though.

Using the insider builds you have more options. Mine is set to middle click.

The trackpads built into the Surface computers are still nowhere near the level of Apple's.

I disagree, having used both the Surface trackpads are honestly my favorite.

The only thing I wish they had was more customizable software

While you can configure a few things [1], I wish there were more options.

[1] https://www.thurrott.com/mobile/microsoft-surface/7232/surfa...

the Pro and Book have completely different trackpads.

I have used both.

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