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[igpayatinlay]

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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[igpayatinlay.insanejournal.com]

You would think so, right? But I think HPs must use some sort of different system for sensing the movement than Dells do because HPs really don't register a thumb movement (the side of my thumb) instead of the pad of a fingertip, regardless of pressure or warmth or anything. If you up the sensitivity levels to 100%, it comes close to the sensitivity of a Dell in that it can acknowledge the movement, but then it jumps around like mad. Move one step down the scale to 90%, and it says 'Thumb? What thumb? You don't need no stinkin' thumbs!'

Or, at least this was the case on my mother's computer; the ones at the stores didn't allow access to the control panel so I couldn't adjust their settings, but, all had a similar baseline level of not recognizing the movement of my thumb.

[chthonian.insanejournal.com]

That's so weird. My trackpad works just fine with a tap from the side of my thumb, and I'd never even considered that it might not register on other laptops. (ASUS, ftr!)

[igpayatinlay.insanejournal.com]

Yeah I was jamming my thumb down on the HPs and they didn't even think I was touching it unless it was the pad of my index finger. :-\