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USB-C DP alt mode coming!

Posted Feb 21, 2026 5:42 UTC (Sat) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198)
In reply to: USB-C DP alt mode coming! by zdzichu
Parent article: An Asahi Linux progress report

> I can't stop wondering why people find MacBook touchpads so great.

I think they used to be a lot better than the other hardware you could buy, Apple was always putting in top-end Synaptics touchpads when other laptop makers were still using PS/2 emulation and skimping out (cheap keyboards, no backlight, poor screen, missing ports, bad microphones/speakers/webcams, etc.) but now most vendors use the same higher-end parts and there are good drivers for them and the quality of Apple hasn't been increasing, it's been slipping IMHO.

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Posted Feb 21, 2026 12:03 UTC (Sat) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

Yup. Back in the day, there were two schools of thought - (1) Apple are horribly expensive, and (2) Apple are value for money - you get what you pay for.

I don't remember people complaining at all that they were overpriced.

Cheers,
Wol

USB-C DP alt mode coming!

Posted Feb 21, 2026 13:52 UTC (Sat) by rsidd (subscriber, #2582) [Link] (1 responses)

Apple's main advantage now is the M-series chips. If they had stuck with Intel they would have been clearly inferior, in terms of hardware, to Windows laptops.

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Posted Feb 21, 2026 16:24 UTC (Sat) by pizza (subscriber, #46) [Link]

> Apple's main advantage now is the M-series chips

...along with their tight vertical integration of the OS and platform tools.

Take away MacOS and (as TFA indicates) even the first-gen M-series Macs are objectively inferior to their Intel/AMD competition.


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