Invisible wrote:
> Bill Pragnell wrote:
>> I see a lot of people using laptops, and hardly any of them use 
>> tapping the pad as a mouse click, preferring to use the buttons (often 
>> with their other hand!). I find this tedious and slow.
> 
> Well, you can't type with one hand anyway, so you might as well use both 
> to work the glide pad.

True, but if you're using keyboard shortcuts a lot then you *can* use 
one hand (say, moving blocks of text or code around in an editor 
window), and then a tap-click is much more convenient.

> As for the scroll pads... now if there was some kind of divider between 
> the part of the pad that scrolls things and the part that moves the 
> mouse, that would be fine. (Indeed, having a vertical strip of pad would 
> probably be easier than a scroll wheel - it's bigger after all.) But 
> with no dividing line, it's frustratingly hard to make the thing do what 
> you actually want.

My HP windoze laptop has exactly that - a thin strip on the right edge 
of the touchpad that does the job of a scroll wheel. It's just so 
frustrating, when switching from the Mac to the PC, expecting the (to 
me) wonderful, convenient navigation and having to fanny around with 
scrollbar buttons or switch to using the keyboard instead... :)

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