Comment by davidw
10 hours ago
I used XPS laptops with Ubuntu for years and thought they were great. The last one I got, though, at the last place I worked, had that weird, 'seamless trackpad' or whatever they call it. I couldn't stand the thing. I much prefer the basic trackpad on the $250 Chromebook I use for personal email/browsing these days.
MacBook trackpads are their single best feature. Even 10 year old ones seem to be better than everything else out there.
Is the entire area under the keyboard a trackpad or do you have to just guess where the edges are?
It was a maddening guessing game, where occasionally - but not always - the edge of my lower thumb would touch the track pad and send the mouse pointer warping off to some other part of the screen while I was typing.
On the previous one that OP is talking about, you had to guess. On the new ones just announced, there are physical and visible lines.
It is slightly wider than the space bar. I've never had an issue with mine, as it is located exactly where I expect it to be.