Paul Thurrott/ : 'The trackpad, too, is larger and offers a first-rate pointing experience that is on part with the best from Lenovo and HP. Baig/ USA Today: 'Fast and powerful Windows 10 laptop has gorgeous display, excellent keyboard and trackpad and can turn into a tablet. Microsoft says this too will soon be fixed.'Įdward C. Sometimes my cursor would jump, stick or just disappear.

But it doesn't quite reach Apple's trackpad perfection. Two-finger scrolling is very smooth-though not in Google's Chrome browser-and other gestures work on the first try. Joanna Stern/ WSJ: '.the Surface Book's glass pad is righting all the wrongs of past plasticky, finger-bruising Windows trackpads. This isn't surprising as Microsoft, like Apple, controls all aspects of the Surface Book from hardware to software. Overall most reviewers are impressed with the trackpad on the Surface Book, although some had issues.Ī common theme running through the reviews when it comes to the trackpad is that the one on the Surface Book is the best on any Windows laptop. I've been reading every review I could find to see if Microsoft has solved the riddle of producing a trackpad that just works.

This week is Microsoft review week with numerous online reviews appearing of the Surface Book. Apple has long made them perform without issues, and reviews of Windows laptops often compare them to the Apple standard. Most agree that trackpads on MacBooks are the standard against which Windows trackpads are judged.

I've had a chance to use Microsoft's new Surface Book for the past two weeks. Microsoft's Surface Book: A nice laptop, but still not my 'ultimate' PC

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