XPS M1330 Touchpad

I'm planning to do a mod on my latitude E6400, so if anyone with an M1330 would answer these questions, that would be great. I can't seem to find concrete info anywhere.

-Are the touchpad in the 1330s all Synaptics, or a mix of Synaptics and Alps?
-How big is the surface area of the touchpad (width x height)?
-And lastly, if anyone knows what the motherboard connector looks like or has a pic of it for some reason, please describe and/or upload.

Thanks!

 

my m1330 had a synaptics touchpad. housemate's vostro comes with ALPS. I read somewhere the latitude e4300 came with an ALPS, which really put me off.

not sure about the other two qs as I no longer have my m1330...

 

Agreed. It almost stopped me from buying my E6400. I paid $1800 and have some horrible Alps, and someone pays $400 for their Mini 10 and gets synaptics (and multitouch too!?). Come on, Dell.

I was seriously considering the Macbook Pro, but the $700 price gap threw down that idea...

 

come on now, at least you get that keyboard!

 

ok from my brand new machine

Width = 2.5 inches
Height of touchpad = 1.5 inches

hope that helps!

 

would you mind being a big more specific? the more precise, the better. especially considering I hope for this to fit with almost surgical precision (that's my half-OCD/perfectionism kicking in). any chance you could measure with millimeters?

thanks for your help so far!
oh, and have fun with your new system - hopefully your graphics (cough cough nvidia cough) will be fine.

 

My XPS M1330 (from April last year) has a touchpad with the following dimensions:
Exactly 3.7 cm from top to bottom
Exactly 6.3 cm from left to right

The edges are curved with approx. 0.4 cm radius of curvature.

The space for the buttons (including the buttons) is just short of 2 cm from top to bottom.

I just measured with a ruler I had lying next to me, though, and that's only precise to the mm.

 

From what I see: M1330 have Synaptics. M1530 have Synaptics or Alps.

http://support.euro.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/xpsM1330/en/sm/palmrest.htm#wp1038495

 

Thanks guys! It looks like that touchpad cable is flat, which, if I recall correctly, is different from what I have. I'll gut it again though to be sure. I'm still deciding on whether to use the M1330 or the Vostro 1500 for the mod.

 

wow you must really hate that touchpad. is it really that bad? I thought the E latitudes were well built awesome machines?

 

Sorry for the huge delay, i'm in the process of moving, so I took me a while to get back on here...

In windows, the pad admittedly is fine. I'd like multitouch (which was one of the main reasons I actually considered the Macbook Pro), but it's not critical. One thing that bothers me to no end is that I dual boot to a certain operating system developed Apple- and the touchpad plain doesn't work, whatever I do. That really bothers me.