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My wife has a brand-new Lenovo ThinkPad with Windows 10, and the touchpad is a total disaster. Now, this shouldn't be interpreted as PC haterade: until fairly r

by wyclif 10y ago

My wife has a brand-new Lenovo ThinkPad with Windows 10, and the touchpad is a total disaster. Now, this shouldn't be interpreted as PC haterade: until fairly recently I was a big ThinkPad guy (but with Linux), and switched to MacBook Pro only after they went Intel. But these touchpads on the new ThinkPads are cheap and tacky. I can't imagine having to use one every day. So any effort PC/Win laptop makers are taking to improve things is welcome. I doubt they'll ever be as good as the touchpads on Apple hardware, though.

philipov 10y ago
I'm surprised she went with Lenovo, and unsurprised with the results, given their history of anticonsumer practices. They've been caught putting malware on their laptops a few times recently[0]. The ThinkPads made by Lenovo should never be compared with the ones made by IBM - that era is over. [0]: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/now-three-pre-installed-malwares-lenovo-laptops/ http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/now-three-pre-installed-malware...
ch_123 10y ago
FWIW - On the last Thinkpad I bought (the X220) the touchpad was notably worse under than Windows with the official vendor drivers compared with Linux using whatever came out of the box. Two finger scrolling comes to mind - on Linux it worked smoothly, but with Windows, there was a considerable lag between me scrolling on the touchpad, and scrolling actually happening in the application.
- marcoperaza 10y ago
  I've noticed the same thing with my T530. The Windows drivers for the Thinkpad also don't let you set the middle trackpoint button to middle-click. There was a way to get it to work by editing the registry, but that's stopped working in recent versions too. I don't understand why Lenovo keeps putting out user-hostile driver updates for Windows. I don't see how it benefits Lenovo, so I guess it's just total incompetence. And yeah, just like you, I find the default behavior under both Fedora and Ubuntu to be perfect.
  - yummysoup 10y ago
    check out tpmiddle to get the trackpoint middle button to middle click on press, and still scroll when you hold it down and move the trackpoint: http://users.v-lo.krakow.pl/~mwrobel/programs/tpmiddle.html http://users.v-lo.krakow.pl/~mwrobel/programs/tpmiddle.html

by wyclif 10y ago

philipov 10y ago

I'm surprised she went with Lenovo, and unsurprised with the results, given their history of anticonsumer practices. They've been caught putting malware on their laptops a few times recently[0]. The ThinkPads made by Lenovo should never be compared with the ones made by IBM - that era is over. [0]: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/now-three-pre-installed-malwares-lenovo-laptops/ http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/now-three-pre-installed-malware...

ch_123 10y ago

FWIW - On the last Thinkpad I bought (the X220) the touchpad was notably worse under than Windows with the official vendor drivers compared with Linux using whatever came out of the box. Two finger scrolling comes to mind - on Linux it worked smoothly, but with Windows, there was a considerable lag between me scrolling on the touchpad, and scrolling actually happening in the application.

marcoperaza 10y ago
I've noticed the same thing with my T530. The Windows drivers for the Thinkpad also don't let you set the middle trackpoint button to middle-click. There was a way to get it to work by editing the registry, but that's stopped working in recent versions too. I don't understand why Lenovo keeps putting out user-hostile driver updates for Windows. I don't see how it benefits Lenovo, so I guess it's just total incompetence. And yeah, just like you, I find the default behavior under both Fedora and Ubuntu to be perfect.
- yummysoup 10y ago
  check out tpmiddle to get the trackpoint middle button to middle click on press, and still scroll when you hold it down and move the trackpoint: http://users.v-lo.krakow.pl/~mwrobel/programs/tpmiddle.html http://users.v-lo.krakow.pl/~mwrobel/programs/tpmiddle.html