Editor’s Note: This story is excerpted from Computerworld. For more Mac coverage, visit Computerworld’s Macintosh Knowledge Center. The laptop trackpad has come a long way since Apple Inc. pioneered ...

Your MacBook Pro or MacBook Air has a large, glass trackpad that supports support multi-touch gestures. Gestures are movements performed using several fingers on the trackpad, and they allow you to ...

The way to impress somebody with Apple’s new trackpad is to have them try to click it when the computer is off. Nothing happens, it’s just an inert piece of glass with just the tiniest amount of give ...

While Microsoft has decided to implement a touch-based interface in Windows 8.1 (much to the ire of many Windows users), Apple has avoided this potential disaster and instead developed excellent ...

Apple's new Magic Trackpad offers desktop Mac users a multitouch trackpad alternative to the mouse, designed to match its super slim aluminum keyboard. The Magic Trackpad follows Apple's introduction ...

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 ...

First off, a few notes on the design. This device is incredibly light and super easy to pack. Maybe even easier to pack than a travel mouse. It's thin, so it slips in easily into a laptop bag, and ...

I’ve let friends borrow my Macbook when they come over to my place from time to time, and I’m still surprised by the way they don’t “get” the trackpad. Some of them look for the button to click, some ...