It’s pretty obvious from Microsoft’s outing of Windows 8 that touch is going to be a real focal point, but on machines that lack a touchscreen, it’ll be the trackpad pulling weight. Synaptics, a famed touchpad maker, has just outed a new concept video demonstrating how its products will eventually — in theory, anyway — interact with Microsoft’s forthcoming desktop OS. We’ve made no bones about the fact that most Windows-based laptops could use a serious lesson in trackpad awesomeness, and while there’s no way to know for sure that the latest Series 7 ClearPad and ClickPad solutions will feel like they need to, the video hosted up after the break sure gives us reason to be optimistic.
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