Laptops have shipped with various pointing devices over the decades. Built-in trackball mice were once quite popular, but there's also that weird rubber nub that's now a hallmark of Lenovo ThinkPad ...

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, ...

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The Apple Store is back up following some downtime this morning and the Magic Trackpad is now available. At just $69, the Magic Trackpad provides your desktop Mac with all of the multi-touch ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Your MacBook's touchpad has a number of different commands that can let you zoom, rotate images, reveal extra options, and more. If you're using the official Apple Magic Mouse, there are even more ...

Apple has released a firmware update for new MacBook and MacBook Pro owners bedeviled by their glass trackpads. The update is designed to fix an issue with the new trackpads unveiled by Apple in ...

A key feature of the new MacBook and MacBook Pro that Apple released recently is the new trackpad. It supports finger gestures that make it easier to use. In this Macworld Video, I take a close look ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Laptops have shipped with various pointing devices over the decades. Built-in trackball mice were once quite popular, but there's ...