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    Dell XPS 17 (L702x) Touchpad & Keyboard

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by dereksurfs, Apr 9, 2011.

  1. dereksurfs

    dereksurfs Notebook Geek

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    Hello,

    Could owners comment on the touchpad and two mouse buttons. I've seen/heard very little written about them so far. The reason I ask is because I do a lot of work in photoshop. My current Inspiron 1720 is very smooth and accurate to use with scrolling in both directions. However my wife's newer Inspiron 1545 is irratic and pretty lousy. I'm also not interesting in an external mouse.

    Is the keyboard the chiclet type? How's the quality of construction, flimsy, solid or? Does it work pretty well overall?

    I'm also interested in the Asus N73JQ/N73SV. But notebookcheck gave it a pretty bad review:

    As a side note I recently bought a Sager 5170 and found the mouse buttons almost unusable they were so hard to click. An external mouse is would have been mandatory for any extended usage/work. I am returning it today for a number of reasons.

    Thanks,

    Derek
     
    dereksurfs, Apr 9, 2011
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  2. Chris Murphy

    Chris Murphy Notebook Enthusiast

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    The keyboard "backlit" is very well constructed,and looks well and is a pleasure to work with,as for the touch pad I still find it not very responsive some of the time,compaired to my Inspiron 9400 even after using the setup software.But all in all is nice unit.
     
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    dereksurfs Notebook Geek

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    Sounds good, thanks for the input.
     
    dereksurfs, Apr 15, 2011
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    torrid Newbie

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    They added a bunch of new features to the touchpad which make it operate like an iPhone - pinch to zoom and picture rotate to name a couple. These made it really, really difficult for me to use the touchpad. I'm a bit clumsy with the touchpad to begin with, but generally can get it to move up/down and left/right.

    When I got my new XPS 17, I had several issues. The screen would spontaneously zoom in or out, or the pointer would move to some random point on the screen. After a few days, I discovered it was all these added features.

    I went into Control Panel and disabled five or six special features. Now I just have basic up/down and left/right motions, and I am much happier. Outisde of all the useless features they added, the touchpad has a nice response and motion...once you disasble everything.
     
    torrid, Apr 18, 2011
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