Apple Adds Support For Windows Precision Touchpad Gestures in New Boot Camp Update

Apple is finally adding support for Windows Precision Touchpad drivers in its latest Boot Camp update. The new 6.1.15 update includes support for Windows Precision Touchpad, including single tap to click, lower-right corner to right-click, down motion to scroll up, and three or four finger gestures. From a report: Various Reddit users noticed the surprise update went live yesterday, and it apparently works better than third-party solutions like Trackpad++ and mac-precision-touchpad that people have had to use for years. "Works way better than both of them with better palm and thumb detection too," says one Reddit user. Microsoft first started introducing Windows Precision Touchpad with Intel in 2013, in an effort to fix what were notorious PC trackpad issues at the time. It has taken Apple a long time to enable Windows Precision Touchpad in Boot Camp, but not every MacBook is supported. An Apple support document notes that only Mac computers with a T2 chip will be able to access Windows Precision Touchpad, which is most MacBook Air and MacBook Pro models from 2018 onward.

And for us with touchpad issues?

[Z00L00K]

For us where even a plain vanilla single finger touchpad is problematic then this would be a new version of hell.

Honestly surprised

[Tarlus]

With the MacIntel era at an end, I figured Apple would leave Boot Camp in the back yard to rot for all eternity without a second glance

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[tlhIngan]

With the MacIntel era at an end, I figured Apple would leave Boot Camp in the back yard to rot for all eternity without a second glance

The M1 replaces only the mid to low end Macs - higher end configurations are still Intel. I believe they released an updated "cheese grater" Mac Pro still running Intel.

M1 Macs make a lot of sense for most users - it handles their tasks efficiently with a long battery life. But if you have a need for computational power, the M1s just aren't going to beat an i7 or i9 process

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[Kyogreex]

Perhaps they're leaving the door open to ARM Boot Camp. If Microsoft offered individual licenses to Windows 10 on ARM I wouldn't be surprised if they already would have offered Boot Camp.

While Apple probably wants people using its hardware to stay in their software bubble, I highly doubt most buyers would use Windows as their primary OS on an M1 Mac.

About fucking time....

[jdawgnoonan]

But funny that they waited until Bootcamp is almost irrelevant due to the M1.

Even older macOSes' Bootcamp versions?

[antdude]

Like in Mojave v10.14.6?

Surprised

[AlexanderPatrakov]

I am not a Mac user, but... why are these basic touchpad features arriving so late to BootCamp users?

a Mac user

[Shrumm]

T2 MacBook Pro users (starting from the 2018 release) are definitely taking advantage of it. I also wonder whether it's available for use with the Parallels Desktop. https://github.com/imbushuo/ma... [github.com] how to type a speech faster https://essaydune.com/write-my-speech/ [essaydune.com]