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In an age where trackpads have become the de-facto input method for notebooks, where are all the wireless trackpads for desktops and extended setups? Apple has an answer.
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chromebook owners for a long time now
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have wondered what kind of options do I
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have if I want to get a wireless
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trackpad and unfortunately every time
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that question comes my way I really
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don't have a good answer up until this
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point honestly usually I would steer
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people towards this guy here this is the
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logitech t6 50 problem is Logitech
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doesn't make this device anymore and
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people that still have them and sell
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them they know it and so what used to be
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I don't know sixty five seventy five
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dollar trackpad is now 150 200 250
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dollars on Amazon because people know
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supply and demand they have them they
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have them to sell and people really want
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them because no one's making them
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anymore you can't get one straight for
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Microsoft Google doesn't make one it's
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basically have a trackpad everybody has
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a trackpad on your laptop or your
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Chromebook but no one's making them
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except one other company and that's
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Apple and so this little guy is their
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Magic Trackpad 2 and I've always loved
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it because it's massive it has their
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haptic engine in here so it doesn't
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actually move but when you turn it on it
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feels like it clicks it's it's brilliant
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it's one of the coolest things that
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Apple's made in a long time but it's
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never really worked on a Chromebook
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apart from being it'll just move the
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mouse pointer around the screen and so
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what we want to show you today is that
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in the developer Channel in Chrome OS
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right now you can actually use this
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trackpad which you can buy it Best Buy
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or Target or anywhere else for 99 bucks
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and it's gonna work 100% with all your
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Chromebooks all right so let's start off
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with the Logitech as I said before you
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can get it on Amazon or you could get it
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on eBay it's gonna cost you a lot of
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money probably way more than it's worth
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but if you find it used and you can get
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ahold of it for a price that doesn't
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kill you then it's a great option it's
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all glass it feels great it works really
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well and I've had it for years and
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they've carried the drivers over through
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Chrome OS it seems like they're gonna
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keep carrying them through and so it
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probably will work for a long time it's
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simple setup just like any other
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Logitech thing you get the dongle paired
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up with your with your particular device
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plug it in
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and obviously turn it on and everything
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works like he'd expects a three finger
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swipe up swipe down works two finger
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scroll and then if you want to do three
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finger swipe between tabs all that stuff
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works just like you'd expect and the
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tracking is really good
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it just works exactly like you would
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expect from a glass trackpad say on the
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pixel book so that's kind of that option
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there but again it's gonna be hard for
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you to find this device at a reasonable
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price so the benefit here is of all the
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people that could make a glass trackpad
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Apple probably makes the best one and so
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it's really cool that the one player in
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this space since technically Logitech
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has left the space and doesn't make
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theirs anymore is Apple and they make
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the best trackpad you can buy they
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always have their they're the ones that
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actually kind of pioneer the idea of
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multi-touch gestures on the trackpad and
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so they're glass trackpads are
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phenomenal and this one is no exception
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to that and so the benefit here is that
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you can buy this for 99 bucks basically
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anywhere and once this patch comes down
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hopefully it's stay well maybe in 71
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we're expecting to see it right now it's
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in the developer Channel once this patch
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rolls its way down you'll be able to use
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it with any chrome device so chrome
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boxes Chromebooks the Chromebook or the
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pixel slate any of those things will
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work with it and so there's two ways you
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can go about doing so with the Magic
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Trackpad - so one of them is to plug it
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directly into your device so whatever
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dongles you need to work with plug that
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lightning cable that's included make
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sure the device is turned on and you can
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see everything works exactly like you
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expect just like with the Logitech two
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fingers swipe works three fingers swipe
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works three figuring swipe up and down
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works everything works just like you'd
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expect but then the added benefit here
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is that without a dongle without a cord
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without any extra stuff you can go down
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and pair this thing with your device so
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you go into your Bluetooth settings I've
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already connected it here but it shows
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up as a trackpad it knows exactly what
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it is and it works the exact same way so
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all your two finger Scrolls three finger
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Scrolls three finger swipes all that
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kind of stuff work exactly like you'd
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expect and it's just over straight-up
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bluetooth so no extra dongles needed
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open your device turn this thing on
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it'll pay write up and work and so we're
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pretty excited that they're actually
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bringing support for this because we get
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questions a lot about which trackpad
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should I use are there any trackpads why
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doesn't Google make it
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what is it Microsoft make a trackpad I
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don't know the answers to any of those
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things I don't know why no one makes
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these but at least the one company that
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does that we can now start using with
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Chromebooks very soon is the one that
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makes the best one and so give it just a
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little bit of time and obviously we will
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put up a story at least on the website
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whenever it's hit stable and you can go
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and buy this thing and make it work for
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right now if you want to jump into the
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developer channel you can make it work
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right now with your Chromebook or Chrome
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OS device but guys that's been it for
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thumbs up hit subscribe down below and
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until next time we'll see you
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