Though I've seen some really low end laptops that somehow hide the touchpad from the OS, and in that case, there's no driver and therefore very little that can be customized. If the laptop has an Alps touchpad, the Alps drivers are very good and offer a ton of customization that makes working with a touchpad a breeze. You can also set finger pressure, tapping pressure, acceleration, what happens at the edges and scrolling zones in both planes, and if you play with these things, you'll find the right settings that work well for you. Different touchpad manufactures use different names for this feature, but they all have it. I don't disable tapping, I use it all the time, especially for dragging, but there is a setting to disable tapping when typing and that's an important one to enable. The trick is in customizing all the settings. Personally, I've never been able to get used to pointing sticks, so I am appreciative of the designs that offer the choice of the touchpad.Me too. That said, it should be easy enough to disable the pad entirely if that's what you prefer. That way there is no inadvertent clicking in the wrong place going on. The trick, IMO, is to disable tapping (clicking) on the pad and always use the hardware button(s). I've never had that trouble with many touchpads. If you connect it to a docking station, be gentle docking and undocking it due to the bendy pins issue, and if you connect a wired mouse directly to the laptop, get a non-Dell mouse the pins on the Dell mouses (mice?) are really easy to break. If you send it back for service, they'll often replace it instead of repairing it and there goes your hard drive. They use a pretty lightweight metal, especially in the peripheral ports, and pins bend and break pretty easily. This is true in the PC's too, not just the laptops. Dells tend to have hardware issues more often than other makes. I had a particularly busy month with two trips each week not too long ago and I think one shoulder is now 2" lower than the other from dragging that thing around.įor the Dell, I'd recommend buying a big USB hard drive/external drive and routinely backing up your laptop to it. The ThinkPad is a great laptop and can stand up to a beating but it weighs a TON. I'm no big fan of Dell- their customer service at the corporate level is pretty horrid- but I would take the Latitude over the ThinkPad on any travel day.
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