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    Synaptic Touchpad For Envys?

    Discussion in 'HP' started by Vihzel, Jul 11, 2010.

  1. Vihzel

    Vihzel Notebook Geek

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    I am assuming that no envies have the synaptic touchpad yet, so when do you think they will be on the Envy lineup? Is it essentially like the Macbook Pro touchpad?
     
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    m3ta1head Notebook Geek

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    As far as I know, all the Envys so far have synaptics touchpads. They are good touchpads that are very tweakable, and can be customized to feel very, very similar to the MBP touchpads. Multitouch on the MBP trackpad is more smooth and fluid, and it is better overall, but the Envy is the closest you can get on a Windows machine.
     
    m3ta1head, Jul 11, 2010
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    moviemarketing Milk Drinker

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    I was used to using my wife's MBP touchpad and unfortunately, the Envy touchpad is definitely synaptics, but not quite in the same league as the MBP touchpad. However, I tweaked the pointer settings to enable Momentum glide and downloaded and installed Scrybe from the Synaptics website to enable multi-touch gestures - this helped a great deal.
     
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  4. donut3

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    The E14 is supposed to have a touch pad superior to the E15 one so it depends on which you are talking about.
     
    donut3, Jul 11, 2010
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    I thought they were the same one...
    they look the same too
     
    Jhnboy, Jul 11, 2010
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    black-rook, Jul 12, 2010
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  7. donut3

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    "There's an official HP driver for Synaptics pads.

    It supports two- and three-fingers on almost ANY synaptics pad (even old ones). It doesn't have to be in a HP laptop either.

    I know it appears too good to be true, but: Yes! You can all get a free multi-touch upgrade for your existing laptops! I've tried it (doubtfully), but it worked fantastically!

    http://www.mediafire.com/?mkyzywmllzl"


    That is a quote from the review of the new touchpad.....not sure of the validity or if its a virus and what not....but im tempted.
     
    donut3, Jul 12, 2010
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    caiol611 Notebook Guru

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    i'm using it atm on my hp dv8280us, virus-free. new options that i now have that i didn't have previously are cursor momentum, chiralmotion scrolling, two-finger scroll, three-finger press/flick. i think the type of options available depend on the touchpad hardware you have, for example my laptop doesn't have two-finger zoom/rotate or any fancy stuff like that.
     
    caiol611, Jul 12, 2010
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    Know where I can find the 64-bit version?
     
    TOMWALK, Jul 14, 2010
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    donut3 Notebook Geek

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    donut3, Jul 14, 2010
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