Sunburn74 wrote:I can't comment on any of the ultrabooks havent not used them. However I find the whole touchpad thing highly overrated. My current laptop is an HP envy 14. In most reviews it was absolutely ripped on the touchpad. However, I love my HP envy touchpad. In fact, I prefer it to my 70 dollar logitech mice. Honestly, touchpads take time to get used to. You can't just use one for 10 mins and say its lousy. Tweak some settings, get comfortable with it and see what happens.
The same with my asus ul30vt. Whilst not as nice a touchpad as my hp envy, the laptop itself was still a joy to use and one of the best purchases I ever made.
It's not just tweaking some settings. Have you tried a MacBook glass touchpad, and taken some time to get used to it?
There are two primary reasons its in an entirely different league:
Feel: it's glass, like an iPhone/Android screen, which means it's smoother than any non-glass touchpad. You don't actually have to press on it, unlike all the other touchpads that require at least a slight amount of pressure. Think of it as an iPhone screen without the screen.
Gestures: Apple has this down like nobody else. After using two-finger drag to scroll up and down a page, the wheel on my mouse feels downright clunky, and it's a great mouse. It honestly feels unnatural doing it with the mouse now that I'm used to the two finger drag scrolling. Swiping left and right to change pages. Three and four finger gestures to change windows and apps. Who needs alt-tab (or command-tab as it is on the Mac) when you can just swipe?
I'm not some neophyte. I've been using PC "laptops" since the Kaypro and Compaq suitcase models. Nobody else makes a touchpad that works as naturally as Apple.
Now, it's a valid point to argue how much that's worth. And you could also make the case that other manufactures could make a touchpad just as well (so why don't they?) But I believe it's a pretty open and shut case at this point that every other touchpad is, at best, adequate.
