Matt Elliott is a senior editor at CNET with a focus on laptops and streaming services. Matt has more than 20 years of experience testing and reviewing laptops. He has worked for CNET in New York and ...

Q: What causes my laptop to click on a link when I am just hovering over it with my cursor? A: When using a laptop, it is important to note that there are a number of ways to set the trackpad, that ...

Though your touchpad is a fixed part of your laptop, your computer treats it partly as an external device. To change your touchpad's settings, you have to access your pad's driver, which manages the ...

Quick Answer: To disable accidential swipes on your MacBook, open System Settings > Trackpad > More Gestures. Either uncheck the two-finger swipe option completely or change it to three fingers ...

Many Toshiba laptops feature a touchpad that you can use to control the cursor on your Windows desktop. This increases the laptop's portability because the touchpad replaces the need to connect a ...

Apple's latest MacBooks get the basics right with their speed, long battery life, Liquid Retina display, solid thermals, and large trackpad. On top of that, the M-series chips, found in devices like ...

Make using a mouse with iPad even better. GIF: Killian Bell/Cult of Mac Apple’s default mouse and trackpad settings in iPadOS might work great with the company’s own accessories, but they can be less ...

There's never been a better time to switch to Mac from Windows. The Apple Silicon M-series chips (like the new MacBook M4) only need a trickle of energy for everyday browsing and watching, then turn ...

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 ...