Series 9 NP900X3C trackpad

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Bought an NP900X3C last week, and at first spent a day cursing the cursor.
Tried removing one & two finger tapping in Settings and indeed that did help.
But it drove me so mad that I fished a dusty old MS wireless kb/mouse pair out of the cupboard and that did the trick. (Of course I don't use the kb, that stayed in the cupboard.)

The wireless MS setup is just what I had to hand, a USB mouse would have been simpler if I'd had one. But could it now be called ultra portable? Well I had no intention of carrying it around anyway, an iPad does for that.

Really, the trackpad on this m/c is about as useful as the famous chocolate teapot. But with BYOmouse you have a fast, responsive laptop that boots in 10 seconds and has a beautiful screen.

I'd previously found the NP900X3B seemingly not actually in stock anywhere in the UK. Then by the end of last week the NP900X3C had vanished from the Samsung UK website! I never looked for the NP900X3A so I don't know where that is at.

But I'd say the X3C is well worth getting, provided you totally ignore the trackpad and add your own mouse, and provided it has a centre wheel for doing vertical swiping.

And that brings me to the point: comparing an ultrabook with iPad, the latest MacBook Pro (and likely MacBook Air), it's only just dawned on me that the traditional mouse and Apple's vertical swiping work in opposite directions. And what's more, although used to mousing with PCs for years, Apple's way of dragging fingers is much more natural.

As Samsung has found out, Apple has this paradigm reversal well patented. But that doesn't stop us reversing mouse wheel direction. We can't get the "bounce" you get if you overswipe near the top of bottom, or the dynamic way its velocity behaves, but does anyone know of a way of reversing traditional mouse wheel response? I've checked the BIOS, nothing to reverse up/down there. Could the MS mouse driver be patched? I doubt that without source code, but could a screwdriver and soldering iron get to work? Again I doubt it, but I'd love to be proved wrong!

 

Most of the discussion about the Elan touchpad is in this thread.

Drag and drop is the feature that many of us disable to improve usability while I find that the two-finger scroll works well. You can also use the circular scrolling if you set the switch in the registry.

John

 

Thanks for that John, which thread is please?

And yes, two finger swipe works, but the wrong way round compared to an iPad. That's my point, if only there was some way to reverse the up/down motion of the trackpad or a mouse wheel, it would be much more natural to some people, even some hoary old ones. Am I dreaming too much?
DW