HyperSpace Trackpad Pro Hands-On: A Windows Answer to Apple’s Magic Trackpad

Apple was the first to genuinely popularize nan touchpad (or trackpad, arsenic Apple calls it), and astir importantly, make it good. Over nan years, nan institution enhanced nan acquisition pinch a fistful of features, specified arsenic multi-finger gestures aliases haptic feedback. Windows alternatives person struggled to support up.

While touchpads successful laptops person improved successful Windows laptops, location are fewer outer options to compete pinch nan supremacy of nan Apple Magic Trackpad 2, a definitive Mac accessory, until now. I sewage immoderate early hands-on clip pinch Hyper's HyperSpace Trackpad Pro, a Windows-based touchpad that—surprisingly—surpasses Apple’s hardware.

Meet Your Match

The HyperSpace Trackpad Pro's main extremity is to supply a high-quality Windows replacement to nan Magic Trackpad. That's easy to cheque off. It has a beautiful design, housed successful a CNC metallic chassis that feels superb. It resembles nan Space Gray Magic Trackpad, featuring acheronian metallic sides and a achromatic trackpad solid surface. It charges via USB-C adjacent to nan manual powerfulness fastener connected nan backmost and tin link via cablegram aliases Bluetooth. It's much aliases little nan aforesaid size arsenic nan Magic Trackpad.

It's capacity that really matters. It has a 240-Hz study complaint (otherwise known arsenic polling rate), which is what gives you that soft cursor movement, matching nan complaint of nan Magic Trackpad. That mightiness not sound awesome compared to nan high-end 1,000-Hz gaming mice, but for a touchpad, it feels ace smooth. I'm happy to study that erstwhile it comes to nan basics of swiping, clicking, and navigating, nan HyperSpace Trackpad Pro feels each spot arsenic precise and soft arsenic Apple's hardware. It useful correct retired of nan container and really elevates what you tin do connected Windows.

Like nan Magic Trackpad, nan HyperSpace is wholly haptic-based, meaning that erstwhile you click down, there's nary beingness fastener being depressed. Instead, you get nan reverberation of nan haptics, which accurately simulates nan emotion of clicking. One of nan benefits of this is that each portion of nan aboveground is clickable, dissimilar mechanical dome move touchpads. You besides get nan expertise to customize each facet of nan aboveground and nan click itself, which is wherever Hyper ambitiously attempts to return nan Trackpad Pro beyond nan title pinch its Hydra Connect software.

Steep Learning Curve

My first belief of nan HyperSpace wasn't good. To opportunity location is simply a steep learning curve, which nan folks astatine Hyper warned maine about, is an understatement. After plugging it successful and attempting to click connected an icon connected my desktop, I assumed I had a defective unit. Trying to click kept pulling up nan right-click menu, and nan click itself felt inconsistent.