Apple’s MacBooks come with a built-in multi-touch trackpad that supports a wide range of gestures to help you perform various operations efficiently. Likewise, its external trackpad, Magic Trackpad, ...

Several years ago, Apple finished deploying a “solid-state” trackpad in place of the mechanical kind it had used starting in 1995. This new kind of trackpad first appeared as part of the short-lived ...

MacOS is constantly iterating, often leading to several features that may or may not be helpful individually, depending on personal preference and usage requirements. This also extends to your MacBook ...

The laptop trackpad has come a long way since Apple Inc. pioneered it 14 years ago on the PowerBook 500 series as a replacement for the trackball found on earlier models. While almost anyone who has ...

Apple on Tuesday unveiled its long-rumored Magic Trackpad, a multitouch input device for your Mac desktop. The wireless, Bluetooth-powered Trackpad behaves much like the multitouch trackpads on recent ...

It's old and battered, but it still works. Even upside-down. Photo: Charlie Sorrel/Cult of Mac If you have a low desk, or you just hate bending your wrists back, then you might consider turning your ...

Clicking can be a drag. Photo: Charlie Sorrel/Cult of Mac I prefer the Mac’s trackpad to a mouse in every way but one. It’s more comfortable, it relieves RSI, it can be used equally easily by the left ...

Firmware update now available for those who purchased Apple's redesigned MacBook or MacBook Pro and have been having problems with the glass trackpad on those systems. Tom Krazit writes about the ever ...

Apple today updated its website to indicate that the Mac Pro now ships with a USB-C to USB-C charging cable in the box, instead of a USB-C to Lightning cable, and we have learned that the high-end ...

The new glass trackpad introduced on the MacBooks unveiled by Apple last month appears to be giving some users fits. The trackpad on the new MacBooks and MacBook Pros does away with a separate button, ...

The trackpad on your laptop is a magnet for dirt and grime. Fortunately, you can keep it clean with nothing more than a ...