Your laptop’s touchpad isn’t just for pointing, clicking, and zooming in and out. That rectangular surface also supports gestures that let you switch between apps, control media playback, manage files ...

Every modern laptop has a smooth square beneath the keyboard designed to help you navigate without a mouse. On a MacBook, it's called a trackpad; on a Windows PC, it's called a touchpad. But ...

Windows laptop trackpads used to be a big headache, causing frustration for many users. In a 2011 ZDNET article by James Kendrick, he expressed this frustration vividly with the question, "Why do PC ...

Touchpads have been a more portable alternative to mice since the 1980s, but the robustness, tactility, and reliability of a mouse are hard to beat. That said, touchpads have evolved well past their ...