Editor’s Note: This story is excerpted from Computerworld. For more Mac coverage, visit Computerworld’s Macintosh Knowledge Center. The laptop trackpad has come a long way since Apple Inc. pioneered ...

The laptop trackpad has come a long way since Apple Inc. pioneered it 14 years ago on the PowerBook 500 series as a replacement for the trackball found on earlier models. While almost anyone who has ...

Say what you want about Apple's expensive hardware, but its MacBooks are some of the best-built laptops money can buy. As mentioned in our review of the MacBook Air M4, the fact that you get twice the ...

Your MacBook Pro or MacBook Air has a large, glass trackpad that supports support multi-touch gestures. Gestures are movements performed using several fingers on the trackpad, and they allow you to ...

Several years ago, Apple finished deploying a “solid-state” trackpad in place of the mechanical kind it had used starting in 1995. This new kind of trackpad first appeared as part of the short-lived ...

The MacBook trackpad is one of the best on the market, but here’s how to make it better. Laptop trackpads have always been somewhat lacking, but when it comes to the MacBook’s trackpad, it’s one of ...

Problems with the MacBook trackpad, such as clicks not registering or registering when and where you don't want them to, can affect your ability to do business reliably and accurately. In extreme ...

Old habits die hard, something those of us who've made the switch from Windows to Mac know all too well. If you've been using a Windows PC for a while, when you use a Mac's trackpad or mouse, you ...

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Apple's new range of MacBooks have something particularly new inside them: the Force Touch trackpad. No longer hinged like previous Apple laptops, the new touchpad houses a "Haptic Engine", outputting ...

The new 13-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display has improvements under the hood, with a new processor, an improved graphics card, faster flash storage and better battery life – but it’s also the first ...