Tap to click on envy trackpad? (like with macbook)

Do the Envy drivers support tap to click? As in not actually pressing/clicking the trackpack/buttons, but just tapping it?

 

yes it comes with one tap to left click anywhere on the pad. and i added two finger tap to right click and three finger tap to middle click. The macbook pro isn't tap to click though. You have to click the pad on the macbook pro.

 

The Macbook Pro does have a tap to click option in preferences for both OS X and Windows (via bootcamp) and it works extremely well.

What do you mean you added those extras?

 

In the settings w/ reil's

Two finger tap = right click for me

Three finger tap activates middle click (the scroll thing)

Pretty much every laptop under the sun supports tap to click, but not every one has multitouch tapping

 

In the new Envy 14, two and three finger taps are built in.

 

Can the Envy 14 click on anywhere on the pad? Can you do 2 finger clicks?

Can it do 3 finger or 4 finger gestures (using touch not click). For example, can I swipe up/down with 4 fingers like the MBP? Does the gesture do the command fluidly or does it lag and jerk?

 

You can physically click anywhere on the trackpad, except the top where the hinge is. So that's like the MBP.

You can do two fingers, and three finger clicks.

You can do three and four finger gestures. A four finger swipe up activates Aero Flip, a four finger swipe down shows the desktop. Four fingers left or right brings up the alt-tab menu.

Three finger swipes are application specific.

Commands are fairly fluid. Not quite as good as MBP but it's livable. A little confusing is that on a MBP, the four finger swipe up normally shows the desktop and down activates Expose. But in this, it's the opposite. And Aero Flip isn't quite as good as Expose.

In order to emulate Expose, I got Switcher. But I can't quite figure out if there's a way to active switcher with four finger swipes, so for now I mapped it to the "Application" button to the right of the right Alt button.

 

cool thanks
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Pad only supports up to 3 fingers, so 4 finger swipe won't work :/

 

I'm assuming they're asking these questions because they're thinking about buying an Envy 14. Because if they already had one, they could just test this stuff themselves. The new Envy 14 supports four finger gestures, without installing any additional software.

 

Oh, I reread and now I get it.

So wait, you have one of these already?

 

Yup. Got it Friday. I had ordered the Beats Edition off Amazon and did the one day shipping.

I've already transferred all my documents and media, and customized it to be as close to OS X as possible.

 

Oh cool :O

So how are the temps, and what's the smartsense thing in the picture?

(this is kind of getting off topic, but w.e)

 

"SmartSense is the Accidental Contact Mitigation technology for Synaptics' advanced Image Sensors. Settings can help reduce unwanted touchpad behavior. See each setting for more detail."

You can adjust the sensitivity of SmartSense, restricting pointing and/or tapping to a certain zone on the touchpad, and change a filter activation time. I haven't adjusted any of the settings but it's enabled by default.

Temps seem alright. The hardest thing I put it through though was installing Ubuntu.