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I'm very curious how well the trackpad on the Surface Book works. I've had MacBooks and the HP Spectre; the Sprectre is awesome but the trackpad...I mean holy shit it's just absolutely awful to the point where I've pretty much stopped using it.

So how good is this trackpad and does it work like a MacBook's where two fingers = right click versus this weird obsession PC vendors seem to have about dividing a single trackpad into invisible click zones?



In Windows 10 I think MS ship trackpad drivers now, on the old Surface products at least two finger tap is definitely a right click anyway.


Interesting; I haven't tried messing with the drivers since Windows 8.1 but using the default ones didn't support two finger scrolling and just seemed wonky. The two finger tap works on either though; I want the two finger click. Taps don't work well in games :)


generally with standard drivers you should be able to configure the click mode. I don't know about HP in particular though.


Yeah it uses the Synaptics drivers but the most you can configure are click zones at the very, very bottom of the track pad itself (so you can't do a real right click anywhere but the bottom right of the pad) and it also does the annoying thing where you can't use the keyboard and trackpad at the same time (so you can't play any FPS with it). I was able to hack up the registry to get them to work at the same time but never got a satisfying right click.

It was so unfortunate too because I really liked that machine. It's just that damn touchpad...and the store models worked the same so it wasn't like I had a weird one or anything.




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