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    I Love Trackpads!

    SmartTrack Neo Multitouch Pad for PC Lets You Do the Pinching Thing

    Apple Updates Multitouch Trackpad Drivers for Windows, Still Unusable

    Gesture-Controlled Light Switch is Like a Trackpad For Your House

    Apple Releases Firmware Fix for MacBook Trackpad Seizures

    Stevemail Promises Software Fix for Glitchy MacBook Trackpads

    New MacBooks Get Glass Trackpads 4-finger Multitouch, No Buttons, and No LCD

    Alps Trackpad Senses Your Hovering Fingers, Weird Gestures

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    MacBook Pros Getting MacBook Air's Multi-touch Trackpad
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    06/10/09

    In reply to I Love Trackpads!
    i think of a trackpad as the most convenient solution to an annoying problem - you dont see desktop users buying trackpads. it's better than not having a mouse, but not as good as having one.
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    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    06/10/09

    In reply to I Love Trackpads!
    Not a trackpad fan, but I DO appreciate the extra functionality you can get from the Synaptics pads with the right drivers.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    06/10/09

    In reply to I Love Trackpads!
    I Love Trackpants!


    fixed it for you.

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    Image of .357 .357
    06/10/09

    In reply to I Love Trackpads!
    I still prefer the mouse.
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    Image of dc-united dc-united
    06/10/09

    In reply to I Love Trackpads!
    I find a mouse MUCH MUCH MUCH easier to use when editing photographs. For all other uses, the trackpad is intuitive to the point that I feel annoyed that my Windows laptops don't support the same set of gestures.


    (It's a little like my stupid habit of tromping on the non-existent clutch pedal when I get into an automatic car.)

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    Image of .357 .357
    06/10/09

    @dc-united: Same here on the clutch thing. Growing up driving manual, I can't stand slushboxes.
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    Image of fuchikoma fuchikoma
    06/10/09

    @dc-united:

    I like trackpads too, but I'm about equally happy with Apple's solution, or a PC with a pad with scrollbars on the sides. I cannot get used to the new MacBooks' clickable pad though, that's just weird. I set it to tap-to-click and never actually click it.


    I picked up a Wacom Bamboo tablet several months ago, and now I swear by it for photo editing - it makes an hour-long mouse job into a trivial 10-minute job, at least for me. Lately I've been using it like a large trackpad when not editing - it has an absolute position mode, and a relative position "mouse mode."

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    Image of dc-united dc-united
    06/10/09

    @fuchikoma: Sounds promising. I'll look into it. Thanks.
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    Image of fuchikoma fuchikoma
    06/10/09

    @dc-united:

    No prob, it was shocking what a difference it made to me.

    The Bamboo line is their entry-level so you should be able to get one for $100 or less, but it's still very accurate and pressure sensitive.
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    Image of WEGGLES90 WEGGLES90
    06/10/09

    In reply to I Love Trackpads!
    You'll never convince me a trackpad is superior to a mouse. I've tried and tried to use a trackpad. Never liked them.


    (I also hate when people have the trackpad sensetivity REALL low and you gotta move across it like 80 times to go from one side of the screen to another)

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    Image of Jonathan Moll Jonathan Moll
    06/10/09

    @WEGGLES90: I'm with you. Using my pointer finger to control is so clunky vs using an actual mouse. I hate when I have to use a laptop for work, I attach a mouse to it.
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    Image of WEGGLES90 WEGGLES90
    06/10/09

    @Jonathan Moll:


    Also, how can it be faster, mice have scroll wheels and buttons for going back and forward. And middle click and such.

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    Image of Barry99705 Barry99705
    06/10/09

    @WEGGLES90: So do track pads.
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    Image of Sentath Sentath
    06/10/09

    @Barry99705: Where? Which one? Show me ONE of those up above that has a scroll wheel. Not a scroll area, or a scroll track, those are humiliatlingly useless.
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    Image of Tiger-Fever Tiger-Fever
    06/10/09

    @Sentath: All Mac trackpads (like the one in the mainpage picture) have two finger scrolling along the entire trackpad. Not to mention page forward and back, expose, and zooming with all the other multitouch gestures. They really are incredible and after 2 years of using my trackpad, I dislike using a mouse.
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    Image of sprice82 sprice82
    06/10/09

    In reply to I Love Trackpads!
    Trackpads are evil.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    06/10/09

    @sprice82: Most trackpads are pieces of sensitive shit. If there's one thing that Apple got stupendously right, it's that trackpad.
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    Image of anon anon
    06/10/09

    In reply to I Love Trackpads!
    Apple needs to take a leap and design something fresh again.. like a screen in a touchpad.. wtf apple? where's my one last thing?!
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    Image of Tvhargon Tvhargon
    06/10/09

    @anon: Didn't they just come out with a one button trackpad?
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    06/10/09

    @tvhargon:


    one button track pad.. yah that was.. breath taking.. i want a secondary display like the article picture dude..

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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    06/10/09

    @anon: See, I used to think that would be a good idea - having another screen down there. Then I realized that I never look at the track pad/mouse and only rarely look at the keyboard.
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    Image of kitsuneconundrum kitsuneconundrum
    06/10/09

    In reply to I Love Trackpads!
    Lenovo's red dot is clearly superior.
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    06/10/09

    @kitsuneconundrum: I seventh this sentiment.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    06/10/09

    @kitsuneconundrum: I recently broke the keyboard nipple off a Compaq b/c it kept insisting that I all of a sudden wanted to be on the opposite side of the screen and stay there. I was getting frustrated, and it snapped right off.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    06/10/09

    @kitsuneconundrum: It seems to me that Lenovo is the only company that manages to get the trackpoint right. The track toggle on other laptops has this nasty habit of sticking in one direction, which renders the trackpad useless and you end up taking the SafetyMachete_GitEmSteveDave route and snapping it off to save yourself.


    I used to despise the trackpoint, then I got to use it a bit more, then I got used to it, then it started to feel natural, and now I actually like it. It's now become a strict requirement of mine if I were to ever purchase a netbook. If netbooks never get a good one, then I will never own a netbook.

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    Image of Salamanderjuice Salamanderjuice
    06/10/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: When Lenovo's netbook was rumoured i was hoping it would have a trackpoint and it didn't just a cramped trackpad like everyone else, so i just got an aspire one instead. I think a trackpoint is the smallest possible mouse thing you can have yet they don't put on netbooks it makes no sense
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    06/10/09

    @Salamanderjuice: The sad part is that the only one that offers a "netbook" with the trackpoint, at least as far as I've seen, is Sony.
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    04/20/09

    In reply to SmartTrack Neo Multitouch Pad for PC Lets You Do the Pinching Thing
    Interesting fingering diagram. Must've copied&pasted it from somewhere.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    04/20/09

    In reply to SmartTrack Neo Multitouch Pad for PC Lets You Do the Pinching Thing
    One step closer to interactive porn on my PC. Me pinchy nipply?
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    Image of weatherman weatherman
    04/20/09

    In reply to SmartTrack Neo Multitouch Pad for PC Lets You Do the Pinching Thing
    I actually like using trackpads quite a bit, especially when they're large. There's just something intuitive about the tactile interaction. If this were twice as big and half as ugly, I'd probably try it out.
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    Image of Voyou_Charmant Voyou_Charmant
    12/19/08

    In reply to Apple Updates Multitouch Trackpad Drivers for Windows, Still Unusable
    Well, working or not, one thing is for sure: if those drivers had packaging associated with them, that package would look really good.
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    Image of snitch29 snitch29
    12/18/08

    In reply to Apple Updates Multitouch Trackpad Drivers for Windows, Still Unusable
    Don't wanna sound like and as* but come on now i hope ya is not referring to how the Multi touch gestures don't work on windows
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    Image of Voyou_Charmant Voyou_Charmant
    12/19/08

    @snitch29: No. You sound "like and as*" because of the way you type.


    I'll assume English is not your first language.

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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    11/26/08

    In reply to Gesture-Controlled Light Switch is Like a Trackpad For Your House
    If I could add a decal onto the panel and turn on some dimmer lights with three fingers like the things on the transporters in Star Trek, this would be awesome.
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    Image of godwhacker, your incandescent leader! godwhacker, your incandescent leader!
    11/26/08

    @Git Em SteveDave loves this guy->★: ahhh, you tng guys, everyone knows the transporter has three t-handles, and besides, without mr. leslie, or scotty running it who knows what would happen?
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid GitEmSteveDave_DefinesTurgid
    11/26/08

    @godwhacker: But if you want to play Scotty, you have to remove part of a finger.
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