How you know almost all of these gaming laptop reviews are fake: almost none of the laptops have trackpad buttons any more, as if you are supposed to somehow game with tap-to-click and software-induced dead times when you click or press a key. Yet no reviewer comments on this.
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Replying to @Jonathan_Blow
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
The joke on all these people is that tap-to-click is *also* worse than trackpad buttons for work/web purposes (in fact for any purposes), but nobody seems to understand UI well enough to see that. But carrying the argument to that point is too deep a rathole.
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Replying to @Jonathan_Blow @cmuratori
There are a lot of variables which led to this shift: every physically moving part on a device is something that can break. Something companies are worried about, you can see this with popup cameras on modern phones.
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The rest of the segment which perhaps included you guys actually had a majority adopting and liking this shift. Hence the gaming laptops don't have those buttons. Basically there weren't enough Casey's and Jon's to compel these companies to continue with buttons on trackpads.
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Replying to @noobGirrafe @Jonathan_Blow
I think that is completely false. There just weren't any laptops. It is not as if there were buttoned laptops and buttonless laptops and people chose buttonless. It was just one year there were no buttons on any high-end laptop, period.
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AFAICT it's just people copy what Apple does. If Apple takes the buttons off, then high-end laptops take the buttons off.
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