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 ...

Laptops have shipped with various pointing devices over the decades. Built-in trackball mice were once quite popular, but there's also that weird rubber nub that's now a hallmark of Lenovo ThinkPad ...

Have you enabled the best trackpad functions on your laptop? This gallery accompanies our story “Secrets of the Mac trackpad, from iBook to MacBook Air.” See that story for the full set of tips. To ...

Say what you want about Apple's expensive hardware, but its MacBooks are some of the best-built laptops money can buy. As mentioned in our review of the MacBook Air M4, the fact that you get twice the ...

Old habits die hard, something those of us who've made the switch from Windows to Mac know all too well. If you've been using a Windows PC for a while, when you use a Mac's trackpad or mouse, you ...

We don’t run across huge numbers of computer setups online driven by M1 MacBook Air laptops. When a laptop is the main computer, it’s more often a MacBook Pro. But a MacBook Air powered by an M1 chip ...

If you ever need a set of weighing scales in a pinch, it's possible to use your MacBook, believe it or not. Tom's Hardware noticed a new app for macOS that turns the humble MacBook trackpad into a ...