Mr. ASUS: Are you going to improve the trackpad? Will this be improved upon for the JT model?
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I agree with J. Leo. The trackpad on every ASUS notebook for the past year have been terrible. I'm talking about that terrible dimpled monstrosity with the rocker switch. Here are my complaints: 1) The trackpad is on a glossy surface, meaning that if your fingers are not well oiled, the fingers do not glide across the surface. This makes using the trackpad a horrible horrible experience. 2) The dimples are not enough to indicate the end of the trackpad. Normal trackpads are recessed, leaving a slight wall to tell a user where the trackpad ended. 3) The rocker switch is not deep enough, so pressing the mouse button leaves an unclear impression as to whether a click was registered. Look at the Thinkpad buttons. Those go deep, at least by several millimeters. If you press it down, you know you pressed a button. The rocker switch goes down by about one millimeter. Not enough. Additionally, if some debris gets down there, it scrapes against the switch which sounds almost like a click. 4) The rocker switch is loud. 5) Due to the glossiness, oil and fingerprints accumulate on the trackpad itself. How ugly. (Consider this a side rant against any glossy notebook chassis.) Also, what's with the typically mediocre ASUS screens? About the only good screen from an ASUS is the 1005 HA.
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Yes, I noticed that too - it's annoying! You can just lightly tap on the trackpad/touchpad to "click" on things and avoid using the noisy button, at least when left-clicking on things (which is what we're usually doing anyway), but when right-clicking you still need to use the button.
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I find it frustrating for simple desktop use. It will sometimes click things when you don't want it to. It's not precise or very accurate. It sometimes goes off on its tangent i.e it'll drift to the edge for no reason. It's terrible really. Use a mouse it'll cut down on the frustration level immensely. However I will add that as of now the trackpad is officially the only problem I have with it. Fanstastic computer otherwise.
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yes, but I recommend not putting it on the trackpad as it seems to have caused problems on mine
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Personally i would go with the trackpad because mouse doesnt have touch click capabilities, the touch on the mouse Only lets you scroll
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I have not encountered the problem of the touchpad, Can you elaborate point?Move the mouse or gesture is not responding?would you ever connected to the official website updated driver?after my operating system installation finished, the machine automatically connected with the official website of a major update, I do not know whether I can help you.
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I too want the GPS version, and i wish they kick the ram to 2GB and switch to the better Atom N instead of the old fashioned Z!! c'mon Asus, this isn't a cheap netbook after all..throw us some good specs!
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I was able to use it on a UX32VD for a year, thoug the trackpad problems are very noticable.
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I cannot answer that because I haven't used the bluetooth trackpad, but I can tell you that I have a 13' MBP mid/late 2012 model and as much as I loved using a trackpad on my laptops up until now, the magic mouse is better times a thousand. The mouse is not uncomfortable (seen many reviews with this comment) but I do not find it uncomfortable at all. Its useful, but somewhat fragile. If you don't have a case for it you should get one to protect from breakage and spills and such. Just my two cents; hope its worth something.
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This is very helpful. Other discussions have also noted the the SE trackpad does not have multitouch either. I will follow your advice and get the regular nc10, thanks S. Quran!
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yup, scrolling is pretty choppy.. no fixes that i have found yet - i now am used to not scrolling with the scroll wheel - great for ergonomics - have had no pain in the arm / wrist since i have it ..
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@E - thanks. So many things coming out at once, I just wanted to be sure I would waste my time if it operated like an iPad. I love my ASUS Notebook G50VT and want to expand my options.
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Hmmm...this is so odd. Confirming my earlier post, the Asus is sitting on my lap right now w/ nothing between it and my legs except thin cotton yoga pants -- no problem at all. One would think all versions of this model would be the same, but clearly not. Glad I have a cool one!!! Still loving it after seven plus months, still recommending to anyone who'll listen, still truly awesome battery life.
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.. and it's shipping now!BTW, the touchpad is a Synaptics and you can go up on their website, download the generic XP driver and end up with a touchpad which has both a scrolling feature and a tap-to-click feature.Got mine earlier from a different vendor and enhoying it quite a bit.
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Note: It seems that the default acceleration for the Touch-pad driver is set low - turned up the tracking and seems much better. I just updated my review to state that.
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Hi John, thanks. i'm close to buying this. Are you happy with your purchase? I heard the trackpad is not as responsive so now leaning towards the Toshiba T115.
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I personally have no experience with the thinkpad's keyboard, however, I do really like the razer's keyboard, the only complaint I had early on is that the zoom feature on the mousepad was a little too touchy so I turned it off. Hope this helps