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> "Your wrist is never misinterpreted as a mouse movement either."

This just doesn't happen on Mac trackpads: they have pretty sophisticated and effective palm rejection.

I think it depends on your style. I have problems with mine, because I typically type with only my fingertips touching anything. So if my palm hits the touchpad, it registers as a mouse movement. The only solution I've found that works pretty well for me is to rest my palms on the touchpad when I type, which seems to give it a better clue. But this isn't how I type on any other keyboard, so I keep forgetting.

As someone with slightly larger than average hands - Yes it does, it happens all the time on both of mine.

Nope. It definitely happened to me on my MBP because of the giant trackpad.

Not sure if that's the case anymore. Had various Apple laptops in the last 15 years and palm rejection worked great. Not so with the 16in M1 MBP. It has trouble with it especially when I wear sleeves. The trackpad might be just a bit too large.

Just spent about 30 seconds there testing this on my m2. Couldn't convince it to move the cursor with anything below the knuckles.

That's definitely not the case in my experience. Has this improved in the recent past?

I have small hands and still have trouble with this, to the point where I almost always have an external keyboard/trackpad with me.

Yes, it does. At least to me.

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