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Dunno, my Zenbook S UX393 has a glass touchpad as well (with some mini display underneath) and feels like the one on my MacBook but I can set up three buttons at the bottom, not just one. Moreover, it has 3300x2200 screen with slim bezels and without any insane notch and it can run Linux smoothly without waiting for GPU drivers to be usable.


Glass stopped being the special sauce for the MacBook trackpads a while ago when they introduced Force Touch. Now you can click anywhere on the trackpad with adjustable “click” feedback. I’m sure yours is nice but no one comes close to MacBook trackpads’ usability.


I think xps 13 plus can be pretty close since they have force touch too. Not sure but maybe surface studio also has something similar


That's ok, but why limit triggers to button areas when 1-finger click anywhere on the trackpad can be left-click and 2-finger click anywhere can be right-click. Macs also have force touch for additional actions. There is probably a 3-finger click option as well. I don't have to know where the buttons are or look for them, no eyes need to be on the touchpad or keyboard, it's just an extension of my fingers.


I turn on the 3-finger-drag accessibility option on my Mac trackpads. It works amazingly well. You can drag, cmd-tab, and even add an additional click to focus a part of an app without losing the drag. I’m amazed every time.


It's not limiting, it can be set up that way as well. But you have an extra option to set up 3 button behavior as well which is missing on MacBooks.


Not sure why though, feels like a gimmick to be honest. Why have buttons which aren't tactile so you have to look for them visually?




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