A240: worst touch pad I've ever used

What's with the touch pad on the Vaios? Often it won't recognize my touch, even with it set at the highest sensitivity. And there's almost always a lag between dragging and the movement of the pointer.

I was able to update the Alps touch pad driver to a later release I downloaded from here:

http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/su...modItemList.jsp

That helps some, as there are more adjustments that can be made. But it still doesn't make up for the lousy hardware. The touch pad on my Acer c300 blows this one away, and has unfortunately spoiled me. Too bad the screen on the Acer sucks. In fact, at this point it is only the screen that has me sold on the A240 and that may not be enough to keep it, alas.... I'll just have to see if I can get accustomed to the keyboard and touch pad.

Dan

 

If you're using an A series, I just don't imagine you going without a mouse unless you're really on the go. Maybe it's just me, but 17" screen and touchpad usage don't go together very well...

It looks more like a hardware problem to me. Most touchpads except the very tiny ones are more or less sufficient nowadays. Some are better than others, but it really makes no huge difference.

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Actually, the 240 is the A with a 15.4" screen, not the big monster. I thought perhaps my particular touch pad was faulty, but I visited a local computer shop and checked out a 250 there and the touch pad has the same behavior. Perhaps it is a difference between Alps and Synaptics (which is what my Acer uses).

Dan

 

I've had no problems with my a290 (wide 17") and the alps pad. I have made the setting more responsive so that I can move the cursor from one edge all the way to the other in one swipe of the touch pad.

I did try the toshiba driver which installed and operated just fine. However, I had come to use the sliding finger option (on the sony pre-installed version) to close windows by sliding from the left top corner diagonally to the right and down which saves a lot of time not having to do alt-f4 or click on the "X" in the top corner of the window.

I found that the toshiba driver no longer offered that option although it had the ability to customize much more including all 4 corners which was nice like the synaptics has had for years.

So, does anyone know how to get the close feature to work again? The synaptics had 'close' as one of the corner features, but not the tohiba version alps?? Or did I just miss the option?



Sony VAIO A290

 

i somehow managed to get rid of the original driver and think i may have the same driver you have. the inertial movement option is indeed included with the new driver (again, sorry if we don't have the same driver):
go to advanced tab
click advanced feature settings
touch pad settings (left side)...click settings
then click the tab for inertial movement.

if you have the same driver, hope this helped.