TIL: mechanical click of a touchpad is now managed by os in new lenovos. Suspend os and you can no longer click your touchpad.

Not tap. Click.

Wtf..

Is this similar to macs? Macs have a software mechanical click. It's actually a little hammer device that taps the touchpad if you press it and Trigger a click.

It once happened to me that suddenly my work mac's touchpad felt "Stuck" and didn't click until reboot.

the click is faked with haptics. Steam Deck has the same feature: you can press and "click" a touchpad, but physically there's no button whatsoever, it's all pressure based reaction with haptics

what above ppl said. this is better than the physical button because it will never break, and also because the click actuation force is the same across all touchpad. I have the old style one, and clicking the very bottom is easy, but clicking the very top is nigh impossible. "But tap", one might say, but I would say "miss me with that shit". Too finicky for me.

I'm really mind blown by this. And wtf, haptics, I hear that word everywhere these days since my friend did a project on it. Believe it or not, art for blind people. He has quite some of such impossible projects, all funded by the EU. Once you're part of that world, it never ends. And even more surprising, he delivers. I told him, that's impossible. But we'll, define delivery. It's done, it was research, next impossible project.

@kiki tbh across all those years using laptops, i've never encountered touchpad button issues. the laptop was morally obsolete sooner than the buttons met their click-lifespan

the fact a touchpad can stop clicking because of a software, combined with the fact how bug-ridden software is today, does not seems like a win

@qwwerty it’s bios