razer blade pro has a different touchpad placement, it's on the right side of the keyboard. I also have some difficulties with the touchpad of my current laptop, I click it all the time.
This right here, I got a Razer Blade from work last year, and found the touchpad so awful I assumed there must’ve been bad drivers installed. 3 driver installs later and I realized it just wasn’t as good as the MacBook trackpad, and I’d just need to pack a mouse everywhere I bring this laptop.
I have a 2020 Razer Blade. My only complaint is that the touchpad is garbage. If I move my finger too quickly it stops working. Doing a drag and drop with one finger doesn't work, I need to click/hold with one finger and do the dragging motion with a different finger. And I get so many false touches or palm touches even with the touch threshold as high as it goes.
Aside from that I love the machine. Metal construction, great screen, user-swappable RAM and SSD. 2 SSD's. But I always need to use an external mouse with it.
Oh and the battery life is also terrible. I've tried everything to completely disable the dedicated GPU while on battery, but things like Windows Search will use the nvidia graphics and not the Intel. So I get about 3 hours of battery with light usage.
> I feel like it regularly gets in the way of typing
I understand that everyone's experience can be different. But wow I just noticed that my palms are so often on the touchpad while I'm typing and I have never ever had any problem with that.
Also I usually use my thumb to move cursor and click while other fingers stay on the keys and I cannot remember when it didn't behave according to my intentions. Especially considering the bigger contact area between a thumb and touchpad compared to other fingers.
I just checked edge cases and it works very reliably.
Cursor doesn't move if I use my palm.
It does move if palm is on the touchpad and I use my thumb.
It does move as expected if I move both thumb and palm over touchpad synchronously.
It follows the thumb as expected if I move both my thumb and palm in different directions.
I remember my first touchpad on macbook air 13 from 2011. It felt so much better than anything I tried before. But at that time it was physical and it had dead zone at the top of the touchpad. And it was smaller. Today's touchpad macbook pro touchpad is an engineering marvel.
I have one of these laptops. I would guess that he's talking about the same issue that I would describe as an "annoying touchpad" on my unit. The issue is a tad difficult to describe, but it feels like the trackpad is always a little delayed. I don't notice it when strating to move the cursor, but when ending a movement the cursor will consistently slowly slide a bit further in the direction it was being moved. This happens even for small movements, making fine adjustments a real pain.
My trackpad also won't depress anywhere near its top-right corner, to the point where it only comfortably depresses at the bottom-left.
I want to like this machine, but the issues are bad enough that I've committed to a keyboard-only setup software-wise.
The problem with the touchpad is suppose I want to scroll. I have to carefully position the mouse over the scroll bar. Then click, or click and drag, whatever, which is just freaking awkward with a touchpad. (It's no issue with a mouse.) Yeah, I know that the right side of some touch pads acts as a scroll bar. But that depends on the right window being the "top" and I often get that behavior mixed up with the other regions of the touchpad. I also have problems with accidentally brushing my palm over the touch pad and "what the hell just happened".
With a touch screen, this all becomes natural and trivial.
I know, I see people using touchpads all the time like it was an extension of their hand, and they have no issues with it.
But I do. I like that touchscreen for my laptop. It is transformative. No other word for it.
As for a desktop with a big display, I don't need a touchscreen except for one case - where you are working with someone and are both hovering over the screen. The touchscreen is real handy for that rather than passing the mouse back and forth.
And I think that may be part of the problem: I didn't find that to be a comfortable position to use the mouse even for short periods of time, having to hold my fingers and palm up and not having a resting, but still moving the mouse, position. I found it extremely hard to get fine control of positioning while clicking, I'd always end up moving the mouse slightly while clicking (incidentally, I have similar issues with the touchpad on the MacBook Pro).
Looking at my laptop, the touchpad is exactly centered. I don't know if this is standard or not, but it's perfectly comfortable. I'm right handed, but I sometimes use my left hand to scroll around if I'm sitting in an odd position, and that's been fine too.
Some designs literally sidestep the problem by just moving the trackpad to the side instead of keeping it below the keyboard. The Logitech K400 is very cheap and has exactly the kind of small and trashy touchpad you speak of, yet I never have unintentional touches or clicks with it.
That's the thing which keeps me from buying a new notebook. :( Everything else I care about is on par with intel macbooks but the touchpad is too important.
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