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Tuesday 28 May 2019

HP is finally fixing its terrible trackpads

Over the past few years, I’ve had the opportunity to use and review a lot of HP laptops. I’ve tracked how HP’s sharpened its design chops, improved performance and battery life, and invented all new form factors with unique materials. But through all of those laptops there has been one constant: terrible trackpads.

It’s not that the actual hardware in HP’s trackpads is bad — they are large, smooth, glassy multitouch surfaces, just like you’d find on any modern laptop. The problem has always been inferior drivers and firmware, which have resulted in poor gesture support, choppy scrolling, bad palm rejection, and all of the other things that make a trackpad frustrating to use. HP has stubbornly stuck with Synaptics drivers on its...

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