Dell model for best Alps touchpad driver?

Does anyone know what the most modern DELL system is that has the best Alps driver support for features such as tapping and scrolling?

The drivers I have for my Alps touchpad from another manufacturer do not have any support for things such as Browser back-button or continuous scrolling (by leaving your finger at the edge of the touchpad after moving across it).

I've read in some older posts where it sounded like Dell's driver implementation had more or better features than what I have, so I'd like to try it. However I am not sure what the most modern / advanced Dell laptop is with the best drivers to choose from. Thanks!

 

Try the Inspiron 1545 drivers. It doesn't have gestures per se; but then this feature is not widely available on alps touchpads. However, it does allow customisation of a few things and provides support for continuous scrolling

 

The Studio 1537 Alps driver is pretty good. It allows edge scrolling on the right and bottom sides, and circular scrolling, as well as edge zoom on the left side.

Unfortunately, it's not going to get any better, just because Alps touchpads don't have the same features that Synaptics pads do.

 

Yup, these are the same features on the 1545 Alps driver; to be honest they are probably exactly the same touchpads.

Annoys me that Dell switched to Alps from Synaptics; miss those gestures.

 

They went back to Synaptics for the Studio...the 1535/1536/1537/1735/1736/1737 all had Alps pads, and were the first two generations of Studio 15 and 17 models. The new Studio 1555 (and I think the 14z) has Synaptics, though.

 

Thanks guys. I wound up trying these drivers. Unfortunately they were more limited than the original ones I had so I reverted. Hard to believe that the functionality implemented by Synaptics is not standard by now...

 

I suspect that the synaptic touchpads are more expensive, which is the only reason alps touchpads are used on some machines.