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PC laptop trackpads
Raised as a usability problem by 12 people on Hacker News over 14 years (2011–2024), in 10 threads.
People raised many different problems with PC laptop trackpads, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 12 complaints
- Laptop trackpads on PCs are so poor the user still needs an external mouse2024-03-05
- PC laptop trackpads are so bad they're unusable for the commenter2023-08-02
- Trackpad is nearly unusable after about a minute, forcing users to carry a mouse2023-04-05
- Clicking gets progressively harder away from the bottom, and the top is impossible to click2022-05-19
- PC trackpads felt borderline unusable compared to Mac trackpads2020-05-05
- Side scroll area is blocked by the plastic bezel, making it basically unusable2020-05-05
- Two-finger scrolling is messy and multi-touch gestures drop on PC notebooks2018-12-24
- PC laptop trackpads feel far worse to use than MacBook trackpads2016-02-09
- Accidental mouse input while typing due to poor palm detection2012-04-21
- PC trackpads feel bad to use compared with Apple's trackpads2011-11-10
- Two-finger scrolling and trackpads often unusable on Windows PCs, needing fixes2011-11-10
- Trackpads on PCs are poor to use, according to the commenter2011-06-03