So infuriating the replies of "plug in an external mouse". Do they ever say that about anything else? Like, should no one review the screen, because you can plug in an external monitor? Should no one review the SSD, because you can plug in an external one? WTAF.
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Replying to @cmuratori
I pretty much can't even do Twitter any more. It gets worse and worse.
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Replying to @Jonathan_Blow
It's insane. I don't even understand how people can type what they type here. Why would you respond to someone who wants to use a trackpad for gaming by telling them that they can't? Or shouldn't? Or something? I've been playing games on laptops for TWENTY YEARS. ON THE TRACKPAD.
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Replying to @cmuratori @Jonathan_Blow
IT USED TO BE FINE. NOW IT IS NOT. THE TRACKPADS HAVE GOTTEN WAY WORSE. Do you understand, Twitter? Is that a concept you can process? We are not talking about impeccable micro here. We're talking about just being able to use the damn trackpad to play games like The Witness.
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Replying to @cmuratori @Jonathan_Blow
Had to check if my laptop's has buttons. I’ve been using it for 3 years. I wouldn't buy one without it. I use it when traveling. I am working 9-5 on a MacBook Pro on a buttonless. You say they’re bad. I’ve never used a better one. You wonder why we think your claims are odd.
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The answer is in your response. No one uses it for gaming. That’s why it’s worse. Would you put a lot of care in the quality as a producer, if you knew most people don’t use it? Gamers think of trackpads as a last-resort and the proof is in the responses you’ve deemed wrong.
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Nothing pictures that better than Jon's take. It wouldn't cross my mind to take trackpad's quality into account when writing a review unless I was buying one for work. He thinks they're fake. Like, no wonder there's disconnection in how we view the problem.
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Replying to @jakmastalerz @cmuratori
Trackpads are of such tremendously varying quality, and some of them are nearly completely unusable. It would be professional negligence to write a review without covering trackpad quality. (Of course most reviewers do that).
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Replying to @Jonathan_Blow @cmuratori
I thought you were talking about user reviews, sorry. Yes, that's odd indeed. It kind of aligns with how people view gaming laptops in general. It seems that we don't consider it. I know I didn't. I'm expecting less precision in trackpads, but I know I won't use them for gaming
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Replying to @jakmastalerz @Jonathan_Blow
We're talking about professional reviewers. Their job is to review the quality of the entire laptop, not just the parts they think people will use. They still test GPU perf, right, even on laptops that AREN'T for gaming. They don't say "we won't test it because no one cares"!
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The laptop review may _conclude_ that one laptop is better than another for a specific purposes, after all the testing, by discounting certain things like "the trackpad was good enough, and most people don't care, so we won't hold it against this laptop" or something.
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But laptop reviewers don't even seem to _test_ the trackpad - at all - which is nuts. It's an integral part of the laptop, and it makes no sense why no one even bothers to measure it when they measure literally everything else, even things most users don't even understand.
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Like, how well the trackpad behaves is wayyyyyyy more consequential to an end user than maximum sequential write throughput, for example. Yet it is way easier to find out the maximum sequential write throughput of a laptop than any trackpad measurement whatsoever!
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