• Laptop for college, not gaming
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I had to reinstall my trackpad drivers a week ago because multitouch scrolling just stopped working.
Blame synaptics for the trackpad drivers, their drivers are so bad that people actually developed their own drivers.
[QUOTE=Cheesemonkey;36782463]this is a fundimental misunderstanding of why apple products are better and a very obvious sign you have never used a macbook air. in a checkbox comparison of raw numbers and features it seems to "fall behind" but the fact of the matter is that the build quality of macbooks is light years ahead of windows ultrabooks, the keyboard is top notch, and the touchpad is best in the industry by and by far, and the power management of osx just makes windows laptops look like trash. also - larger screen sizes make for larger laptops and a 15 inch laptop isnt an ultrabook. and don't go all "but well cm you see a laptop is an ultrabook if..." because the marketing label for ultrabooks is shit and not strict enough to define a product similar to a macbook air dont buy crappy windows knockoff ultrabooks, buy a macbook air. they're still decent computers in their own right but they're obviously copying the mba and they dont even come close[/QUOTE] I don't even know why people think Macbooks have underpowered hardware. Since Apple switched to Intel CPUs they've almost always get Intel's latest CPUs before everyone else. The newest MBAs have Ivy Bridge CPUs which came out a month (May) before the 2012 MBA (June) [editline]16th July 2012[/editline] Not to mention the fact they were the first to use Thunderbolt (another Intel technology) [editline]16th July 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Cheesemonkey;36778084] have you considered a macbook air? because they're pretty much the best laptops money can buy and they fit your description perfectly. apple refurbished ones go for like $800[/QUOTE] You can get a brand new one for $950 with the education discount. I think the refurb ones are all the 2011 model right?
Didn't the OP say that he doesn't want a mac?
ok this thread really wasnt very helpful but i went with the asus zenbook because of all the reviews i read thanks anyway!
[b]All[/b] trackpads are shit. [img]https://encrypted-tbn3.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcStvRYhhWfpo_Hdbbt-eYyHouTaBFqnRoCkkHfxW-xrO-ie348S[/img] This bitch is where it's at. [del]Shame they stopped making laptops with them.[/del] apparently they do still make them but i never fucking see them anymore so what the hell
thinkpads use trackpoints, they're fucking badass.
A store close to me calls the trackpoints a "nipple mouse". [url=http://www.futureshop.ca/en-CA/product/lenovo-lenovo-thinkpad-14-1-intel-core-2-duo-t7100-laptop-english-refurbished-t61/10201448.aspx?path=e4d0f405d3a1ba872d4d1d60ff704a25en02]Here's an example.[/url]
[QUOTE=lavacano;36803144][b]All[/b] trackpads are shit. [img]https://encrypted-tbn3.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcStvRYhhWfpo_Hdbbt-eYyHouTaBFqnRoCkkHfxW-xrO-ie348S[/img] This bitch is where it's at. [del]Shame they stopped making laptops with them.[/del] apparently they do still make them but i never fucking see them anymore so what the hell[/QUOTE] How can something not capable of absolute movement be better than something that is for the task of moving an absolutely positioned mouse cursor? I've used them and you might as well be using a joystick as a mouse for all the good they do.. I don't think anything short of a mouse beats a high dpi touchpad on high sensitivity with acceleration off. A (bigger than average) touchpad in absolute pointing mode (which few if any have, though I'm working on one for Synaptics) should theoretically be better than a mouse for desktop tasks, though in reality probably still slightly worse.
mouse nipples own because windows trackpads have historically been complete shit and they're better than the 80% of trackpads without multitouch or gestures fuck edge scrolling
keyboard nipples own because of their name.
dont you mean clit mice?
Nipple, clit, whatever They're definitely better to use IMO, once you get used to them it's hard to go back to a trackpad
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