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It's not a big leap if you have actually tried both the Mac trackpad and a variety of other PC OEM trackpads. It's night and day really.

It’s well known that Mac trackpads are a mile beyond everyone else’s (Microsoft’s Surface trackpads, for me, come closest, but still not close).

That’s not really in dispute.. the question is: why?

Yeah it does sound that way. I have been jumping between PC laptops and MacBooks for years and this has been a consistent experience for me between the manufacturers - with the exception of the Surface range of laptops, which I believe have great trackpads

Yeah, no. Tried several - Dell, Lenovo, Asus, Surface - never found a Windows trackpad that was anything remotely as precise and usable as a MacBook. Strangely, I thought the Pixelbook's was excellent, the only trackpad that compared.