Once and for all, which is the superior input device?

once and for all, which is the superior input device?

Bluetooth mouse.

playstation controller

A mouse.

touchscreen

Touchpad. It's not even close. It's why that clit thing died off.

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Apple's trackpads are fucking incredible. Trackpoints are nice too but, they're just not enough to beat the trackpad on a Mac. Now, if a machine had both, that would be pretty damn sweet. Apple will obviously never do that though.

Closest thing you'll ever get is an X220 Hackintosh using the external Magic Trackpad, the one with force touch. My god that's actually a fucking great idea.

A trackball

clit
trackpad is less durable and will fuck up tracking when I'm eating cheetos and force me to reset
I used to game on the clit when I was 11, playing tf2 back in 08

Using a twm on your laptop so you don't have to rely on either.

Touchscreen or mouse. my laptop has a touchscreen and I'm so glad I don't have to use that garbage anymore.

>that clit thing died off.
l m a o

gr8 b8

>I used to game on the clit when I was 11
Out of all the sentences I could imagine, this was not among them.

>touchscreen
>laptop

How did you stray off Facebook to here?

When I am using one, I miss the other.

the only time i use the touchpad is with my foot to turn the screen back on after it's been idle 20 minutes

Am I the only one who things all those gesture are really faggy?

For some reason whenever I see someone use gesture I imagine a flamboyant homosexual.

Coding or excel the clit

You.....realize you can just disable the sleep on timeout...right?

I got used to the clit but I secretly think touchpads are better

Let me just say there is no scrolling like clit scrolling.

And scrolling with a touchpad is just retarded.
How could they not come up with something better than constantly swiping?

For most devices the trackpoint is far better, it's easier to make and harder to fuck up.
Touchpads take excessive configuration and care in manufacturing to make functional, while Apple manages this, most everyone else fucks it up.
So it really depends on the device.
Of the two on the two shown, I'd rate them pretty equally useful.

bro that isn't even a competition. tell me how I would go back pages with a clit

>trackpoint

>calling it a clit mouse makes me cool

The normal way, with backspace?

Ehm....people don't actually use the mouse to click on buttons do they?

Trackpoint is way superior if you've learned home row touch typing, it's better for scrolling and general browsing as well. Where the trackpoint fails for me is more precison based actions, where a good trackpad or mouse reign supreme.


Mouse>TrackPoint>MacBook Trackpad>>>>>>Windows OEMs trackpads

yeah but i also know it's a good idea for the display to turn off sometimes

just sometimes when it thinks it's idle, i'm actually monitoring it

Neither is inherently better than the other. They're good for different things. If you use the keyboard a lot, the clit is better since it allows you to stay on the homerow. If you spend most of your time scrolling and using the mouse the touchpad is better.

keyboard
>using software that requires input that isn't a keyboard

Chrome by default has disabled backspace to go back, on my thinkpad I use dedicated forwards/backwards buttons, I'm not sure if those are common in other laptops.

i use both at the same time, clit for moving mouse and touchpad for shit like scrolling and zooming

you're mentally ill. seek help and get some meds.

llol gay

>clit mouse
>spent three times the amount to move mouse around
>can't easily use zoom and scroll features
>looks like shit

Love my Thinkpad, but damn is that shit useless.

i3 and a ThinkPad's touchpad are frankly enough for me.

btw how can I use a trackpoint with being left-handed?

The same way you'd use it if you were right handed.

Feel free to reverse the buttons if it helps.

>own a ThinkPad
>use the touchpad

on proper thinkpads above the left and right arrow keys are page forward and page back.

ur mom's pussay

Mac fags like to use a familiar gesture

Yep, that was my question, but the Archlinux wiki solved it. Thank you.

kek

ive got both an x220 and a 2011 macbook

the macbooks trackpad shits all over any built in input device on the x220.

trackpoint>>>>>>>>>>>>generic windows acer touchpad
mac touchpad is about as comfy as a trackpoint though

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you can never accurate movement on that fugly red mole

>he didn't remap Hotas key to vim shortcut

yes

Chrome has it disabled by default because fucking normies keep backspacing back into their history.
It's now fucking alt+L/R

>you can never accurate movement on that fugly red mole
You aren't supposed to be looking at it when you're using it.

You mean the complete opposite; it takes far longer to to move the cursor with a touchpad than a clitmouse. Both in time and physical movement.
>Can't easily scroll
Get the fuck out of here you

Get laptop with touchpad that supports middle click. Then you can scroll easily.

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Trackpad, you mean. Is terrible.
The less you have to interpret the better.

Might as well use one device user.

A trackpad has limited usability and is imprecise. It appears to be fine, grained, when the input is not like that. A mouse separates the usability.
It doesn't because the trackpad is limited to the OS.
>I started using OS X in 2005 when 10.4 (Tiger) was released. I ditched Linux at the time because I needed to print things and Linux was awful at it; OS X wasn't. I was very productive with OS X and had no serious complaints. When 10.6 (Snow Leopard) came out, I was content.
woz.posthaven.com/why-i-quit-os-x


That wastes space you know. Having the page and etc. keys above arrow keys. A numpad is more useful with a scroll bar above. I know it is a laptop but still. I saw one on a desktop keyboard. A Thermaltake keyboard, I saw on Linus channel.

keyboard > touchscreen > mouse > nipple > touchpad.
There has never been any debate with this.
Apples touchpad is slightly better than the rest as it is closer to a touchscreen.

Thinkpad t60 touchpad

Keyboard

>touchscreen > mouse
Superb bait.

Wacom tablet

same for me gamed on old core 2 duo and shit when I was a kid using the clit, mostly Runescape though