We're talking about the soft-touch lid, yes, but also the smooth, glassy trackpad and textured, leather-inspired palm rest.
There's even a laptop-style trackpad supporting multitouch gestures -- a rarity on products like this.
The trackpad is also superior to what you'll find on most other tablet keyboards.
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Swiping your fingers left to right across the trackpad switches to another page of specific apps.
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The Surface also features a USB port, a full keyboard, and a multitouch keyboard and trackpad.
So, while they toss that presumed update together, how has the new trackpad been treating you?
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Unlike the Magic Trackpad, though, it recharges over USB, whereas the Magic Trackpad runs on AAs.
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Similarly, the trackpad's screen lacks visual fidelity and plays back YouTube videos at a choppy framerate.
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One more bit of praise bordering on giddiness: The glass integrated trackpad feels downright luxurious.
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Add the machine's trackpad and built-in "kickstand, " and you've got usability features that current iPads don't possess.
Jobs also introduced a multi-touch glass trackpad for both the MacBook Pro and the new metal MacBook.
It's hard to recommend any trackpad for gaming, but Razer's touch-sensitive "Switchblade Display" is actually quite tolerable.
Additionally, Vizio has updated the trackpad drivers, though the touchpad we tested still felt a bit finicky.
The tablet interface includes a trackpad space, areas for clicking right and left button and a drop-down keyboard.
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Logitech just announced two wireless mice and an external trackpad, all optimized to support gestures in Windows 8.
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It's not a huge problem, but there's no 1:1 usability model between an Apple trackpad and this mouse.
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NEC's done a good job with the button-less trackpad which is properly responsive.
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Other features include an "HD" camera, a custom keyboard action for less finger-fatigue, and an enhanced smooth glass trackpad.
It performs admirably as a regular trackpad as well, and executes multitouch gestures more reliably than most inlaid pointers.
You can click on these, naturally, or use the arrow keys if you want to give the trackpad a rest.
What's more, that extra half-inch over a 10.1-inch screen would allow for a more spacious keyboard, along with a trackpad.
It's an enormous trackpad that accepts gesture input to control the computers applications, modeled on the interface for the iPhone.
The primary reported problem was with certain physical clicks not registering on that schmancy new glass trackpad, no small annoyance.
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It's also nice to see that Wacom's killed off the circular trackpad that we hardly ever used on the original Bamboo.
It features a 2.8-inch capacitive touchscreen display, the widest QWERTY keyboard available on a BlackBerry smartphone and a trackpad for easy navigation.
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The docking station also includes a keyboard, trackpad and MicroSD card slot.
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There obviously weren't multiple notebook revisions, but the trackpad was dead on.
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The keyboard and trackpad feel great (we're coming from an 11-inch Core i7 MacBook Air), and two-finger scrolling works like a charm.
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And the enormous trackpad, with support for "multitouch" gestures, is easy to pick up, even for a fat-fingered reporter who likes his mouse.
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