I like it too. The world is split into people who incompetently tap it like some kind of magic button going "I hate this mouse" and people who put their finger on it and point.
Yes! I think the first half think we do it by some kind of mind-control or something, given the weird looks I get when I'm using it sometimes. It's really very simple indeed, minimalist (I find it helps minimise RSI-type symptoms), and not at all scary, but to some it's like magic, apparently...
I don't like the Evil touchpad that has appeared below the keyboard on all new laptops, including the newer ThinkPads, but so long as I avoid accidentally resting my thumb on it I can cope.
I'm glad I'm not alone... I loathe touchpads, and when I had a company laptop with one which couldn't be disabled in the bios I resorted to sticking a sheet of plastic over it. I've had a series of Thinkpads of my own, largely because of the "blob" (and decent keyboard, and generally good build quality), though a couple of them developed screen failures.
I've just realised I could actually do that, thank you - not having had one before it actually didn't occur to me as something to go and do upon its arrival. (I've not had this machine very long at all, so it's not like I suffered with it for years. *g*)
Oh, I know how to work it - I just found it inconvenient, bad for RSI, and in all ways inferior to the nice touchpad they'd given me as well.
My work laptop (Dell) has one, and I don't believe I've ever touched it (except just now, to verify that I could instead still use it!)
Like I said to Bo-Peep earlier, each to their own :) I'm glad to hear that there are people who like the silly rubbery blob, it's always mystified me why laptop manufacturers still included them.
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Date: 2010-01-14 06:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-14 06:48 pm (UTC)I don't like the
Eviltouchpad that has appeared below the keyboard on all new laptops, including the newer ThinkPads, but so long as I avoid accidentally resting my thumb on it I can cope.no subject
Date: 2010-01-14 07:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-14 08:37 pm (UTC)I've had a series of Thinkpads of my own, largely because of the "blob" (and decent keyboard, and generally good build quality), though a couple of them developed screen failures.
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Date: 2010-01-14 08:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-01-15 09:04 am (UTC)My work laptop (Dell) has one, and I don't believe I've ever touched it (except just now, to verify that I could instead still use it!)
Like I said to Bo-Peep earlier, each to their own :) I'm glad to hear that there are people who like the silly rubbery blob, it's always mystified me why laptop manufacturers still included them.