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Why do I not like a single fucking laptop being sold right now? Seriously, I've been to three stores, I've searched online, I don't like anything I've seen. I just want a power cord on the side of the computer rather than in the middle of the back, a mouse track pad that will respond to my thumb so that I don't have to take my fingers off home row to select anything, and an Intel processor.

Does anyone have a laptop that they love? I've always had Dells, and I've never used a HP that didn't have this problem with the tracking pad; if I change the sensitivity options on my mom's then it jumps around selecting things willy nilly.

This is so frustrating I legitimately think I might cry. I just want a new computer, why is it this hard?

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This isn't helpful, but I have never once considered using the track pad with my thumb as to not have to take my fingers off the home row and my mind is blown a little right now.

Yeah my mom was like "But why do you do it like that?" and I said "Saves time, less movement?" I mean... I use my thumb as my mouse almost exclusively. The idea of moving my hand to use the actual pad of my index finger frustrates me tremendously. o.O

FYI, if you DO want to do that, Dell in my experience the last two days seems to be pretty much the only laptops with enough sensitivity to actually accomplish it. I was trying to do it on an HP at Costco today and I was ready to scream in the middle of the store because it just would not move, nor would it acknowledge that tapping with the side of my thumb was my way of clicking.

Nah. I have a wireless mouse because using the touchpad at all happens to annoy the shit out of me, but after reading this post I definitely sat and started playing around with my thumb on the touch pad on my dell laptop.

It's always a matter of 'to each their own' with computer preferences I feel like. So, how do you wrangle the wireless mouse when on a couch/in bed/etc? Or do you just always use your computer on a flat surface?

Usually it's on a flat surface, because there are really only three seating options in my apartment and two of three are flat surfaces. (IE I don't have a couch.) When I do sit on the bed, I usually grab a textbook and plunk it down and put the mouse on that.

I have the opposite problem in that the only flat surface in my house that isn't already occupied by my dad's desktop or my mother's art supplies is the dining room table. :P Well, or a small coffee table I would have to sit on the edge of the couch for, crouching over to use it.

I always use my wireless mouse because using trackpads drive me crazy. And I use it fairly often on couches & my bed -- the mouse registers just fine on the fabric surface, but if I want some extra stability, I'll plonk down a textbook or a pad of paper.

THIS.

You use an external mouse, or you're just like WTF, THUMBS?!

WTF THUMBS.

I have a wireless mouse that I rarely use and just stick with the track pad, but I just tried the thumb thing and OMG AMAZING.

LOL, yaaaay, I converted you! ONLY NO, IT'S SHIT BECAUSE THERE ARE NO COMPUTERS FOR ME RIGHT NOW. :|

Are you trying it on a Dell, HP, or something else, and if the answer is not a Dell, HOW did you get the sensitivity settings to work so that you could move the mouse more than one inch at a time w/o being hypersensitive to clicking every single thing? XD

Dell! With more info on my comment below :)

Herp derp, you already said below. ♥

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