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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Apple’s MacBooks come with a built-in multi-touch trackpad that supports a wide range of gestures to help you perform various operations efficiently. Likewise, its external trackpad, Magic Trackpad, ...

The way to impress somebody with Apple’s new trackpad is to have them try to click it when the computer is off. Nothing happens, it’s just an inert piece of glass with just the tiniest amount of give ...

Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on laptops and streaming services. Matt has more than 20 years of experience testing and reviewing laptops. He has worked for CNET in New York and ...