People say Apple gets it because, well, Apple tends to get it

Recently bought a new Acer Aspire 7740G-6930 for work because we needed a portable, big-screen, Windows-based laptop with discrete graphics. All in all, the computer has been quite serviceable, and I’m having a bit of fun getting re-acquainted with Windows (it’s been since the early Windows NT days that I’ve spent any quality time with a non-emulated Windows box).

But it’s no Apple. Why? Because the trackpad doesn’t work so well. Yes, that’s right, the one part of the computer that is front-and-center to every interaction that you have with it: the $&#*#ing trackpad.

I had kind of gotten to the point that the act of pointing at something on my screen had become, well, unconscious. I move my finger, the mouse moves. Pretty straightforward. But now each time I twitch a digit, I have to do a quick double-check: did the pointer really move? And did it move to where I was sending it?