Acer Aspire 5920 trackpad design fault?

I briefly tried out an Acer 5920 in a store recently, and guess what happened when I tried typing (with my palms resting on the laptop)? The trackpad made the mouse pointer move all over the place. Compared with my current laptop, which has the trackpad lowered about 3 mm, having the trackpad flush with the rest of the keyboard seems a bad idea. Anyway, what are peoples experiences of using this in normal use? Reading reviews here this seems to be a common complaint. What are experiences with people using this day in, day out? Do you get used to the mouse pointer doing its dance? Thanks.

 

there is no trackpad, it is not a thinkpad.

seriously, it is a bit unpredictable, I just disaable it on my fried's Acer and use usb mouse or BT mouse.

 

you can adjust palm area sensitivity(i mean touchpad sensitivity about palm area) & it will solve your prob.

 

Well...I have been using the 5920 for a few weeks now and while I originally did have a few problems, now I seem to have become accustomed to it. Initially, I also used to disable the touchpad (Fn+F7) and just use my laser mouse...but now I don't even notice it.

BTW, I am typing a lot these days - around 3K words per day...so...!

Cheers!

 

i expect it is the way you type!! i am noticing that whilst my wrist rest on the notebook my whole hands are elevated. but i had learned to touchtype many many years ago on a manual typewriter so perhaps thats the difference there were no wrist rests on those!!

 

try an ALPS driver,,, any ALPs driver for your OS should be fine

i'm using one for a TM 3050 from 2006,, but it solved all my issues


later,,
bigO

 

Alps touchpads really sucks. My friend has it in XPS M1530 and it's bad . Synaptic rules .

 

just use the ALPS DRIVER w/ synaptics pad...

it solves the problem of the cursor jumping around


since doing that,, my cursor has not jummped ONCE