Quality of e6400 touchpoint?

The touchpad is really bad. It just freezes up in full or partially sometimes and you have to remove your fingers off it for a couple of seconds to restore its operations.

 

while i agree that the ALPS touchpad on the new dell business models is not as nice as the synaptics one on the older series, the problem you are describing is a feature, not a bug

ok ok its more like a feature interfering in your use. go to the mouse settings and disable or reduce the sensitivity of "touch check". this should solve the problem. its supposed to enable the touchpad to determine if your palm is hitting the touchpad and causing the cursor to move, or if its your fingers.but it dosent always work well.i reduced the sensitivity of touchcheck and now i dont have any problems.

 

Unfortunately NO, it doesn't solve. The responsiveness of the touchpad becomes much better indeed then, but (1) the freezes won't go away, the touchpad just "responses much like one should" most of the time and (2) if I turn the touchcheck off completely I start getting "random mouse jumps" over the screen while just typing (not touching the touchpad, of course).

 

I'm well aware that the sensitivity of the Trackpoint is adjustable, but that doesn't make it any better. I can adjust the rate of acceleration, but that doesn't make it any better. IBM has negative inertia feature to increase precision, but I'm not sure if Dell has that. That could be why I'm overshooting sometimes.

 

i just installed a new keyboard, and this trackpoint is worse than the old one. its really jump and less fluid. does it have a break in period or something (the other was a refurb)?

 

the touchpoint is really really bad compared to Thinkpad.
this is my final conclusion.

 

It is ok. I have at work Lenovo laptop , and my private E6400. Touchpoint in Dell is almost same as in Lenovo. It a bit more responsive (you have to use slight more force in Lenovo , though mine Lenovo is 1,5 year old .. so it is some weared a bit). Other thing is that it accelerates faster - but this is mouse settings, sometimes driver on Dell behave that cursor stutters - but this is driver issue ver-7.2.101.215. I solved this by moving to Dell Touchapad>Pointing stick settings> Touch Check> Maximum when slider is more to Maximum then cursor moves more smoothly on screen.

I really dont know what to think , I didn't read all posts but with my laptop I fell better when TouchCheck is at almost maximum it is rather better ... I mean smoothness of movement of cursor when using Touchpoint (not Touchpad, although touchpad is also working ok) ... Touchpad does not cause movement when Trackpoint is in use.

 

interms of my unit
i prefer the trackpoint of the e6400 compared to my T23;T43 & T61 [lenovo]
i just had to tweak it a little bit from its control panel

 

i'm not happy with the touchpad either. it freezes and sometimes jumps, etc despite messing with the settings. The touchpoint i just can't used to.