XPS 13 9360 - Aggravated with touchpad

Hi!  I'm hoping that somebody here may be able to assist with this as it's driving me up the wall.  

I purchased a XPS13 9360 and am running Ubuntu Gnome 17.04.  Out of the box, the touchpad works....however, not great.  When using the Synaptics driver, the touchpad movement feels great and everything is perfect, but palm detection does not work.  Yeah, you can use the syndaemon to disable the touchpad while typing, but I find that it still isn't the fix to palm detection.  I think the reason why palm detection doesn't work is because Linux can't see the pressure or finger width, as reported by X.  From what I read, the synclient needs this to be able to determine if a palm is resting on the touchpad or not.

Xorg.0.log:[ 425.704] (II) synaptics: DLL075B:01 06CB:76AF Touchpad: device does not report pressure, will use touch data.
Xorg.0.log:[ 425.704] (II) synaptics: DLL075B:01 06CB:76AF Touchpad: device does not report finger width.

Now if I disable the synaptics driver by removing the package and make the machine use libinput, palm detection works great but now the pointer doesn't move smoothly.  It moves, but when you try to move it slowly around, the pointer starts to get a bit jumpy and hard to control.  Under synaptics, this doesn't happen...but then palm detection doesn't work.  

Has anybody else stumble upon the same issues?  What was your fix?  I have to believe that there is something that I can do as this model has been sold to many as being linux friendly..which is has been so far...except for the touchpad.

Thanks in advanced...