- #Dell multitouch touchpad drivers
- #Dell multitouch touchpad driver
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Swipe up gives you instant access to the “All programs” list in the Windows 8 Start screen, swipe down gives you the Start screen itself. The only gestures I could reproduce with some reliability are the three-finger swipes. The algorithms that separate gestures from each other and panning must be such a science I can only imagine robots performing the gestures with any confidence in outcome. Worse, sometimes I move my two fingers everywhere like ice-skaters, nothing actually happens. One moment you’re scrolling, the next moment you’re accidentally zooming.
I would consider two finger vertical scroll the bread and butter of any good trackpad and it’s frustratingly hard to pull off accurately on this trackpad. You simply can’t build enough trust to use any of the gestures with confidence. But when it doesn’t work, it can work against you.
#Dell multitouch touchpad drivers
This is surprising since Dell has a history of shipping quite customizable trackpad drivers for their laptops.īut probably the most important, the gesture detection is too finicky. You can’t tweak the sensitivity and you can’t disable gestures.
#Dell multitouch touchpad driver
Unfortunately in this case this is where the quirks develop into frustrations.įirst of all, as of the most recent version of the driver ( v1.04 released ), there are no customization options. Of course all great hardware needs equally great drivers and software. Possibly due to the miniature size of the dongle (it was so small I accidentally threw it in the bin), I noticed some interference issues at a meter distance with other wireless keyboard/mice and possibly WiFi devices which all operate on 2.4Ghz. The device uses a mini dongle to communicate on what I can safely presume to be the 2.4Ghz band. Although subject to sensitivity settings, gliding across an entire 27″ screen is possible from one corner to another. The surface area is reasonably sized and should provide sufficient room for most gestures. The touch surface itself is smooth and fingers glide quite easily. The clicking is subtle – the depression isn’t even deep enough to see a visible change, but it’s comfortably firm and provides a decent amount of audible and physical “thump” to let you know it clicked. The underside is also what provides the tactile click feedback when pressing down on the device. Four rubber seats which provides a firm grip for the device when the finger ballet happens. Underneath is a fairly typical rubber surface shell which has a removable tray for 2xAAA batteries. The flush metallic chrome encompasses the matte black surface which has no visual impurities except the vertical line dividing the “left click” and “right click” areas at the lower bottom. Out of the box, the Dell Wireless Touchpad TP713 is quite an elegant device. I’ve been quite content with the multi-touch trackpads on Dell laptops, so I thought how different can it be? Lots, apparently. It even works spectacularly in Windows too. Although by no means a flawless product, its tracking and gesture recognition (two-finger scroll, pinch, rotate & three-finger swipe) are extremely consistent. My experiences with the Apple multi-touch trackpad on the MacBook Air has been extremely satisfactory. I spend enough of the workday scrolling webpages, emails and Twitter to appreciate any good alternative to the scroll wheel of a traditional mouse.įor better or worst, I had high expectations, not that anyone shouldn’t. When I saw the Dell Wireless Touchpad on last week, a product I didn’t even know existed let alone shipping, I knew I had to try it. So you try again and again, but it still lets you down. You know that feeling when you want something to work really bad? You try it.
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