Every modern laptop has a smooth square beneath the keyboard designed to help you navigate without a mouse. On a MacBook, it's called a trackpad; on a Windows PC, it's called a touchpad. But ...
Windows laptop trackpads used to be a big headache, causing frustration for many users. In a 2011 ZDNET article by James Kendrick, he expressed this frustration vividly with the question, "Why do PC ...
Touchpads have been a more portable alternative to mice since the 1980s, but the robustness, tactility, and reliability of a mouse are hard to beat. That said, touchpads have evolved well past their ...