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The trackpad on Macs is one of the major reasons I stick with Mac laptops.

Same, despite the overheating issue with my model, and the copious amount of OS issues with the more recent releases, I’ve yet to find a laptop that comes close to Apple’s track pad.

To a point where sometimes I prefer the track pad over a mouse.

You’ve probably already heard about this, but there has been a large discussion about how charging from the traditional left side of 15” (and I believe 16”) MBPs results in heat and fan issues. A lot of people have had improved results just by switching power to the right.

That is just ridiculous.

Not more than the previous keyboards which can't handle a spec of dust under the keys.

if what you have told me is true, you will have gained my trust

This was on HN about a month ago [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22957573

Currently using a third-party 'mag-safe' adapter and after changing to the recommended side, have had much less issues with heat

Not for me on 16" 2019 Pro, the fans spin right up as soon as I start a Slack call and the base starts to melt rocks after about 15 mins.

Co-workers on the previous gen 15" pros also don't find this to actually be a solution. The issue is that Macbooks aren't a great investment for Apple, as the make more money in every other department, without anywhere near the upfront costs.

If you have a machine more than a year old, take the bottom cover off and clean the fans. It really helped my 2018 MacBook Pro.

Except it's way too big now, resulting in spurious cursor-jumps, erroneous right-clicks... it's dumb.

Even dumber is that Apple didn't do the obvious thing to make the giant trackpad pay off: Make the Pencil work on it! DUHHHH

> Even dumber is that Apple didn't do the obvious thing to make the giant trackpad pay off: Make the Pencil work on it! DUHHHH

I really don't think the trackpad is large enough for this to be broadly useful.

Now, if they'd just put a damn touch screen on their laptops...

I remember yelling at my computer screen during some Apple announcement while some VP pontificated about how touch is the natural, convenient, intuitive, superior etc. approach all while ignoring the GIANT SCREEN.

Honestly I am not wanting for a touchscreen but if you are going to rant about how great “touch” is just swap the screen with an iPad and shut up.

While I’m ranting, the other year when I saw the Microsoft Surface Studio (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=microsoft+surface+studio&t=iphone&...) I thought, “10 years ago if you made me guess who made that machine I would have said Apple”

I remember years ago after I had switched to Apple using a Windows laptop and I thought, “How is this trackpad even acceptable?”

In more recent years I have noticed Windows machines have made some very good trackpads.

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