How to Use trackpad in a Sentence

trackpad

noun

• This could be for a tablet, a notebook, or a trackpad.
  — New Atlas, 13 Mar. 2026
• The keyboard and trackpad, to start.
  — PC Magazine, 21 Oct. 2025
• Instead, swipe up or down along the left or right edge of the trackpad to activate pre-set commands.
  — Maryna Holovnova, New Atlas, 4 Nov. 2025
• This is a downgrade for the beloved trackpad, but an understandable place to cut costs on the Neo.
  — Matthew Buzzi, PC Magazine, 5 Mar. 2026
• If your trackpad is acting up, keyboard shortcuts can keep you productive without fighting the cursor.
  — Ken Colburn, AZCentral.com, 19 Jan. 2026
• Use keyboard shortcuts to avoid right clicking When your trackpad is finicky, right-clicking can feel like trying to thread a needle while riding a roller coaster.
  — Ken Colburn, AZCentral.com, 19 Jan. 2026
• Its keyboard and trackpad are mostly as excellent as those on a MacBook Air, only smaller.
  — PC Magazine, 20 Mar. 2026
• Those machines will include faster processors while retaining a full-sized keyboard and trackpad, Bloomberg has reported.
  — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 3 Mar. 2026
• Mac users don’t manage trackpad drivers directly, but keeping macOS updated achieves the same goal.
  — Ken Colburn, AZCentral.com, 19 Jan. 2026
• To that end, the new MacBook Pro looks similar to the current model, including a full keyboard and large trackpad.
  — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 25 Feb. 2026
• Its modern trackpads use haptic vibration to simulate a click, but the Neo’s is mechanical, so every click is real.
  — Dwight Silverman, Houston Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2026
• The keyboard is paired with a throwback version of Apple’s famously superior trackpad.
  — Dwight Silverman, Houston Chronicle, 28 Mar. 2026
• Over six generations, Nex Computer shipped laptop-style shells that let smartphones power a full keyboard, screen, and trackpad.
  — New Atlas, 23 Jan. 2026
• The device combines a pressure-sensitive trackpad positioned against the roof of the mouth with head-motion sensing, which means the cursor can be controlled with either the head or the tongue.
  — Maryna Holovnova, New Atlas, 3 Aug. 2026
• In our review of this touch-screen portable, we were impressed by its long battery life, comfortable input from both keyboard, trackpad, and screen, and extensive port selection.
  — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 14 Aug. 2026
• The inventors promise that the trackpad’s ergonomic design keeps your hand in a more natural position compared to a traditional mouse.
  — Maryna Holovnova, New Atlas, 4 Nov. 2025
• Watch for battery swelling If your trackpad suddenly feels stiff, won’t click normally, or behaves erratically, check the bottom of the laptop.
  — Ken Colburn, AZCentral.com, 19 Jan. 2026
• The different Dock input devices range from $55 for the Touch trackpad to $129 for the Float spatial mouse.
  — Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 25 Jan. 2026
• The trackpad is virtually divided into action zones, allowing users to assign shortcuts to each one and also map one-, two-, or three-finger-deep clicks to specific tasks.
  — Maryna Holovnova, New Atlas, 4 Nov. 2025
• Fully compatible with Windows 10 and 11, the trackpad works straight out of the box and connects to a computer via Bluetooth.
  — Maryna Holovnova, New Atlas, 4 Nov. 2025
• MatePad Air with case Minor gripes include the keyboard missing a trackpad, which makes navigating not as seamless as Huawei’s higher-tier tablets.
  — Ben Sin, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
• Update your drivers On Windows laptops, trackpads rely on drivers, and outdated or buggy drivers can cause lag, gesture failures, or scrolling issues.
  — Ken Colburn, AZCentral.com, 19 Jan. 2026
• Hardworking professionals in cafés, airports, or parks hunched over a laptop while carefully dragging their fingers over their PC’s trackpad to navigate some email, project, or alert that can’t be ignored.
  — Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 10 June 2026
• The MacBook Neo uses a mechanical multi-touch trackpad instead of Apple’s haptic trackpad system.
  — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 4 Mar. 2026
• The Hydra Connect app is not compatible with macOS, but the trackpad itself can still function on your MacBook in basic point-and-click mode.
  — Maryna Holovnova, New Atlas, 4 Nov. 2025
• The Neo drops Apple’s usual trackpad for a proprietary mechanical version without haptics, but keeps the Magic Keyboard.
  — Matthew Buzzi, PC Magazine, 17 June 2026
• The trackpad changes more noticeably; in part to make room for the bigger battery, Framework has shifted from a trackpad with a physical clicking mechanism to a haptic trackpad that uses vibrations to simulate clicking.
  — ArsTechnica, 27 July 2026
• App Developers, both inside Cupertino and out in the wider world, will have to avoid putting any exclusive features in the touch interface; everything needs to be accessible through the trackpad or the keyboard.
  — Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026
• If anyone remembers Force Touch (Apple's pressure-sensitive contextual controls), that's still part of the trackpad experience, as well.
  — PC Magazine, 21 Oct. 2025
• Laptop manufacturers have experimented with different kinds of secondary displays for years, from dual-screen notebooks to above-keyboard 4K sketch pads and even E Ink trackpads.
  — New Atlas, 6 Mar. 2026