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    What do you think about Als touchpad slow response?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by swarm, Jun 10, 2008.

  1. swarm

    swarm Notebook Geek

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    Hi there,

    my experience is that laptops with Alps touchpads have a noticable lag in response. I made 2 simple videos:

    Alps touchpad on Lenovo ThinkPad X300 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipxBlBb542M
    Synaptics touchpad on FSC Amilo Pro V3205 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdmaawZPBbI

    Slow response on Alps touchpad is very significant in this case. I have tested about 50 laptops since last year and maybe 10 have Alps - each with Alps have this problem.

    What is your experience with Alps touchpads? There are only few discussions about this problem on the internet. I want to know if it a global problem or I had luck to bad ones.

    *) Sorry for my bad english
    **) Google-translated article on my blog - http://translate.google.com/transla...na-touchpadech-alps&hl=cs&ie=UTF8&sl=cs&tl=en - (Czech is very difficult language for machine translation)
     
    swarm, Jun 10, 2008
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  2. flipfire

    flipfire Moderately Boss

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    Mine works fine... no lag.

    I dont have any drivers installed for the trackpad, im using whatever Vista installed. Try uninstlaling the ALPS driver
     
    flipfire, Jun 10, 2008
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