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Best pointer device in existence, bar none, July 2020
By Leif Hanson on Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2020
After almost 20 years of career programming my hands are showing wear. I have tendonitis and several of my knuckles are showing early signs of RA. I have used roller balls, touch screens, eye tracking, in addition to every style of ergo mouse on the planet, and am almost always looking for a better more ergonomic solution for controlling a computer's cursor and controls, without sacrificing speed and accuracy. I should mention I am running a Mac, but I have it dual booted with Windows, and I have several Windows and Linux VMs on it... just to qualify the next thing I'm about to say as not coming from an "Apple Fanboy". This is the best input device the world has ever seen. Period. Bar none. End of discussion. It is also likely to be the best input device to come out over the next several years. When combined with a utility like Better Touch Tool, one can pre-program various gestures for up to 5 fingers that can control almost all aspects of computing needs. From switching open windows, to gestures for window management, to gestures for controlling individual apps... you (almost) don't need a keyboard anymore. And for anybody with aging hands that still must stay fast and busy, this is an absolute lifesaver. While some Apple products in the past have been very ergonomically poor, looking at you Magic Mouse 2, this is the opposite. In my experience gestures will translate well into Windows environments and respond well when used in Windows and Linux Virtual Machines or Remote instances as well, or when paired directly to native Windows or Linux instances. A traditional mouse is still better for FPS style gaming, but for many other kinds of games this touch pad works surprisingly well. Gestures for everything. Works very well "out of the box" on any OS I've ever thrown at it and usually has some 3rd party utils for advanced gesturing on those systems. Glass surface is the best, most accurate touch surface I've ever used and rivals that on modern phones. Life changing for the work environment.
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Not magical
By Quark Penholtz on Reviewed in the United States on November 1, 2018
I bought this trackpad to help with wrist/arm/shoulder pain caused by using a conventional mouse in my home office. I connected it to a Windows laptop via USB cable and used a third-party utility called Magic TrackPad Utilities as the driver/options configurator. I mention this because I assume most people will be using it with Macs, so take my review for what it's worth. After trying it out for two weeks, I found that rather than helping with the wrist pain, it was, if anything, making it worse. Because the entire trackpad is an input surface, you can't rest your hand or fingers on it without either triggering unwanted action or disabling wanted action like moving the cursor. This means that you have to keep your fingers slightly raised and your wrist rotated maybe fifteen degrees at all times in order to use it, which means more wrist fatigue & pain. This is compounded by the low profile of the trackpad: it goes from maybe 1/8" on the near side to 3/8" on the far side, and I ended up resting my wrist on a folded up t-shirt to avoid having to hold it 1-2" over the trackpad all day. Aside from the ergonomics, I didn't think it had the same frictionless feel as my MacBook Pro's trackpad – there's more drag, especially when either the air in your house is a bit humid or your fingertips aren't perfectly dry, which means you get clumsy, jerky movements instead of precise ones. I find I'm more fluent on a basic Logitech mouse than this trackpad, for a fraction of the price. Additionally, the gestures are a mixed bag – it's nice to be able to scroll with two fingers, drag with three, etc. but it can also be annoying to set your four fingers down on the trackpad and suddenly minimize all windows. Finally, there's the price: for $125, I was basically expecting it to be magical (and the name doesn't exactly discourage such thinking). In reality, it's a bit more humdrum. I'm going back to a conventional mouse for now.
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