Laptops have shipped with various pointing devices over the decades. Built-in trackball mice were once quite popular, but there's also that weird rubber nub that's now a hallmark of Lenovo ThinkPad ...

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, ...

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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 ...

The Apple Store is back up following some downtime this morning and the Magic Trackpad is now available. At just $69, the Magic Trackpad provides your desktop Mac with all of the multi-touch ...

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 ...

There are multiple apps on the App Store that let you control the cursor of a Mac from your iPhone or iPad, but I don’t remember using any like El Trackpad. This new app turns your device into a real ...

The new glass trackpad introduced on the MacBooks unveiled by Apple last month appears to be giving some users fits. The trackpad on the new MacBooks and MacBook Pros does away with a separate button, ...

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