Deals: Magic Trackpad 2 Available for Low Price of $89.99 ($40 Off)

And I'm growing more embarrassed that I paid for one. Wow...

I refuse to pay their current ransom for a keyboard. 'HOW MUCH? SERIOUSLY?'

Typically I dont like to buy something like used KB and mice but here made an exception and have no qualms about it.

got a black Magic Mouse 2 for like $25 a couple years ago on Craigslist, added Magic Grips for ergonomics, chlorox'd the hell out of it and called it a day. Battery still holds a solid charge.

Got a magic keyboard (non numeric keypad, the compact one) with all keys working in really good shape, battery holds a good charge, for $24 on eBay, chlorox'd it like crazy too.

$49 for both, well under $200+tax for both.

$200+tax for a single keyboard is insane - even with numeric keypad and touchID. I couldn't do it, even if I had enough money to make it rain off a helicopter.
Imagine $329+Tax for the numeric keypad/touchID keyboard and this trackpad. LULZ!

And I'm growing more embarrassed that I paid for one. Wow...

I refuse to pay their current ransom for a keyboard. 'HOW MUCH? SERIOUSLY?'

Same here. I used the first-generation Magic Trackpad for a few months, then gave up on it. I can see how it might appeal to some folks, but it just wasn't for me. I definitely wasted my money.

And after my Apple wireless keyboard died after a year of use, I bought a Logitech K380 wireless keyboard that cost a third of the price of Apple's keyboard. That was three years ago; I've only replaced the batteries once, and the performance remains rock-solid.

Are these available in silver anymore? All I've seen is white and black - I could have sworn there were silver ones at some point...

You might be thinking about the original:
https://www.amazon.com/Trackpad-Compatible-Desktop-Computer-MC380LL/dp/B016E2YUHG

If you're in Adobe apps the scrolling across your artboard with the trackpad is fantastic, or scrubbing in video apps, along with pinch and zoom. I miss it when I am using just a keyboard and mouse. The Magic Mouse is great but there's something better about it on the trackpad.

So now you can add me to the list of people with both a mouse and trackpad combo, I am the person buying this.

Should probably cost less than $40 in the first place.

I do this too. For 99% of stuff I prefer using a mouse on a desktop computer, but every once in a while there's a gesture that makes life much easier.

The other thing I've always liked about the trackpads and the Magic Mouse is the smoothness of scrolling. Using a standard mouse, you get very jerky movement by comparison.

(I found something called Mos ('https://mos.caldis.me') that smooths it somewhat, but it's buggy in some applications and never quite as smooth as the real thing.)

nothing beats macOS scrolling in the computer world