You are confusing tracking speed with acceleration. The behavior on the mac is as you move the mouse, or slide across the trackpad, at a steady speed, the pointer won’t match the steady speed, it will accelerate as continue the motion. It is very disconcerting if you aren’t used it. Apple doesn’t offer any setting to enable/disable. So while you might call the OS polished, it is at the price of not being particularly configurable.
But based on what I found at The Apple Trackpad: Overview of Technology and Use, you can set it to a One to One which implies to me that you could make it work more PC like, I think.
Personally, I HATE trackpads. I'd like to beat the guy that invented it, or at least placed where they placed it. I have one on my IBM Thinkpad, but it's disabled. I only use the trackpoint which I consider to be far superior to the trackpad - once you get used to it.
Maybe you should have done a google search to save yourself some money:
In a terminal type:
defaults write .GlobalPreferences com.apple.mouse.scaling -1
defaults write .GlobalPreferences com.apple.trackpad.scaling -1
It was the first hit on google and is about as ugly as many MS registry hacks I have had to employ over the years.
Apple tends to not build a GUI for some of the more esoteric or rarely desired settings. Try this from Terminal for mouse and track pad respectively:
defaults write .GlobalPreferences com.apple.mouse.scaling -1 defaults write .GlobalPreferences com.apple.trackpad.scaling -1It'll stick unless you otherwise change your mouse settings again. Explore "defaults write" some more, because you can do some pretty crazy fine-tuning and customization of the system with it. In Windows the equivalent would be hacking the registry to customize things you can't do through the GUI.