Clicking on MacBook

Just curious, is tapping the MacBook touchpad with one finger the same as clicking the mousepad? I have a Dell laptop (unfortunately), and when I tap the touchpad with one finger, it's the same as actually pressing the left-click button.
I know that using two fingers does a right click, but just needed to be sure that a one-finger tap does a left-click.
Thanks guys!

I believe that tapping is turned off by default in the system preferences... so it may not work when you first turn it on... but as mentioned, just go into your system preferences and enable "tap to click". This will also enable you to do the two finger right click.

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