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I recently bought a lenovo l450, I'm pretty disappointed with the responsiveness of the two finger scrolling. Is there a reason it's bad, or is there an apple p

by jokoon 11y ago

I recently bought a lenovo l450, I'm pretty disappointed with the responsiveness of the two finger scrolling. Is there a reason it's bad, or is there an apple patent preventing from being good enough ?

dijit 11y ago
Companies are cheap when it comes to HID devices on laptops. you can't put a 'number' to it, so it's not something they can add to a spec sheet, so, the kinds of people who hate on apple will not pay for an 'inferior' spec machine which has a higher build quality. it's a hard sell to investors.
- jokoon 11y ago
  even for a thinkpad ?
  - dijit 11y ago
    thinkpad ain't what it used to be.
cyphax 11y ago
Does it run on Windows? If so, could you try to boot some kind of Linux distro from USB, to see if it's similarly bad? I'm very suspicious of the driver because my T530, which has by a huge margin the most atrociously (physically) uncomfortable touchpad I've ever seen, has that problem too. And any other Windows-running laptop I've used from any brand, too. My T61 on the other hand, runs on Linux and the touchpad is super smooth. It's not only Apple. Could be just Windows drivers being poor. :)
- cptskippy 11y ago
  I'm always shocked at how responsive and wonderful trackpads become when I boot up Linux on one of my Windows PCs.
currysausage 11y ago
Set Control Panel -> Mouse -> Wheel -> Vertical Scrolling to 3 lines. Restart the PC and don't use TrackPoint scrolling. Check whether touchpad scrolling is more responsive. If it is, please contact Lenovo and demand a fix. On my T430, with Lenovo-branded Synaptics drivers installed (it's an even greater mess without them), using the TrackPoint for scrolling will reset above setting to 1 line and make touchpad scrolling ridiculously slow. Setting it back to 3 lines won't fix touchpad scrolling until restart. Worst point: I can't even disable middle button scrolling, so I constantly hit it by accident. It's ridiculous how PC vendors totally ignore bugs in the most basic functionality. I like where Windows is heading, I like many aspects of ThinkPad hardware (dedicated Home/End/PgUp/PgDn buttons are a huge selling point), but these things are violently pushing me back to Apple.

by jokoon 11y ago

dijit 11y ago

Companies are cheap when it comes to HID devices on laptops. you can't put a 'number' to it, so it's not something they can add to a spec sheet, so, the kinds of people who hate on apple will not pay for an 'inferior' spec machine which has a higher build quality. it's a hard sell to investors.

jokoon 11y ago
even for a thinkpad ?
- dijit 11y ago
  thinkpad ain't what it used to be.

cyphax 11y ago

Does it run on Windows? If so, could you try to boot some kind of Linux distro from USB, to see if it's similarly bad? I'm very suspicious of the driver because my T530, which has by a huge margin the most atrociously (physically) uncomfortable touchpad I've ever seen, has that problem too. And any other Windows-running laptop I've used from any brand, too. My T61 on the other hand, runs on Linux and the touchpad is super smooth. It's not only Apple. Could be just Windows drivers being poor. :)

cptskippy 11y ago
I'm always shocked at how responsive and wonderful trackpads become when I boot up Linux on one of my Windows PCs.

currysausage 11y ago

Set Control Panel -> Mouse -> Wheel -> Vertical Scrolling to 3 lines. Restart the PC and don't use TrackPoint scrolling. Check whether touchpad scrolling is more responsive. If it is, please contact Lenovo and demand a fix. On my T430, with Lenovo-branded Synaptics drivers installed (it's an even greater mess without them), using the TrackPoint for scrolling will reset above setting to 1 line and make touchpad scrolling ridiculously slow. Setting it back to 3 lines won't fix touchpad scrolling until restart. Worst point: I can't even disable middle button scrolling, so I constantly hit it by accident. It's ridiculous how PC vendors totally ignore bugs in the most basic functionality. I like where Windows is heading, I like many aspects of ThinkPad hardware (dedicated Home/End/PgUp/PgDn buttons are a huge selling point), but these things are violently pushing me back to Apple.