hey laptop manufacturers:

[Van Cruncheon]

NOTICE: put a fucking key/switch/button to disable the touchpad on your fucking cases. exception goes to the crazy chinafolk at asus, who actually DO do this. thanks, prole.


i'mma play heavy rain and piss on a picture of michael dell. this pointless waste of unicode inspired by kentuckybore (tm the jack daniels company)

[Bebpo]

yeah, my dad complains about this a lot and is pissed there's no way to disable the touchpad.

[Bocsius]

My Dell Studio 17 laptop allows me to auto-disable the touchpad when I have a mouse attached. 

My ghetto Dell Vostro laptop at work allows no such option. For all I can tell, it's not even recognized as a touchpad, but as a mouse!

[Van Cruncheon]

well, my brand-spankin' new studio xps doesn't let me, so michael dell can gorge on my phat dick

[Bocsius]

On my studio, there's a Dell Touchpad icon in the system tray. Right-clicking on that and bringing up properties, I've got four option groups.

* Device Select / Button Settings
* Scrolling & Zoom Settings
* Touchpad Settings
* External Mouse Settings

Choosing the first group allows me to click a checkbox with the caption "Disable touchpad / pointing stick when external USB mouse is present."

If that's not on your laptop, then yeah... micturate upon Michael Dell's rug.

[Van Cruncheon]

oh, i have that, i am a tardasaur

michael dell may make of my mouth his toilet

still, i'd rather have a button to toggle on a moment's notice

[Arbys Roast Beef Sandwich]

annihilated, michael dell redeemed

[Madrun Badrun]

Why is this needed?  The only scenario I can think of is if one were fapping to some hardcore movie, and just as one was building up to the end, an end which one hasn't had in months due to erectile dysfunction, a consequence of this persons age, he accidentally - given the extreme maneuvers he has to do with his hand just to stay hard - hits the touchpad, giving the focus to some other frame than the one with the video.  In trying to get the video back he loses his concentration and then thus the moment as well.  Enraged, he cries bitter tears and then posts this message on Evilbore with a soft yet unsatisfied dick in hand. 

[Van Cruncheon]

OR i touch type and my thumb brushes the mousepad, moving the fucking cursor and making my typing look like your particular brand of unintelligible gibberish you grotesque submasculine canuckoid

[Madrun Badrun]

I prefer my scenario.

[Barry Egan]

me too

[Beezy]

OR i touch type and my thumb brushes the mousepad, moving the fucking cursor and making my typing look like your particular brand of unintelligible gibberish you grotesque submasculine canuckoid

[Bocsius]

That's what angers me about the stupid Vostro laptop at work. It's real nice when you're typing code and the cursor jumps somewhere else on the screen. Contrary to popular opinion,

Code: [Select]

      yaere is; the

Doesn't compile!

Fortunately, I'm now using a regular keyboard on the thing and using a dual-monitor set-up, so the laptop isn't even the default screen.

[TEEEPO]

my gf's cheap gateway allows her to do this


GATEWAY

[Great Rumbler]

My old HP laptop has such a feature as well.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

OR i touch type and my thumb brushes the mousepad, moving the fucking cursor and making my typing look like your particular brand of unintelligible gibberish you grotesque submasculine canuckoid

agree, I don't know how people use touchpads, all they do is fuck up my typing

[T234]

That's what angers me about the stupid Vostro laptop at work. It's real nice when you're typing code and the cursor jumps somewhere else on the screen. Contrary to popular opinion,

Code: [Select]

      yaere is; the

Doesn't compile!

Fortunately, I'm now using a regular keyboard on the thing and using a dual-monitor set-up, so the laptop isn't even the default screen.

This post is just awesome. Man, I got good porn store stories that might be told on the Borecast if they'll have me 

[brawndolicious]

My basic Lenovo has that button.  kills cursor drift like the whore it is.

[Donono]

we should build a Prof. Prole insult matrix.

[Brehvolution]

This brand new Dell e6400 is sans button. $2000 laptop leaves off a 50 cent button.
Dell

[Reb]

annihilated, michael dell redeemed

michael dell

[Mupepe]

Question guys,

I have an Asus laptop running Windows 7.  I had to do a fresh install so there is no Asus software on there.  The touchpad has no options and it was WAYYYYYY too fucking sensitive.  When I'm typing it likes to click somewhere on the lightest (and i do mean lightest) fucking touch.  i have to type all fucking weird and shit.  It didn't have this problem before I installed Windows 7.  Any suggestions?

[Eel O'Brian]

install the vista drivers for your model from the asus website

[Van Cruncheon]

also more brilliant dell design: when the screen lid is open, it covers 3/4ths of the heat vents. w t f. this might be going back.

[max_cool]

Is it too fucking difficult to have an analog volume control? My Toshiba from 2006 had one, but now I gotta push a god damn button a million times and even then I can't get it at just the right level without also adjusting the volume in the media player or the universal volume control. FUCK!

[cool breeze]

the hp mini 210 I got has a neat solution.  In the top left of the mouse pad there is a dot that you can tap twice quickly to turn off/off the mouse pad; when the pad it off, it lights up orange.  But it also has the two mouse buttons integrated into the touch pad, meaning clicking one of the buttons can move the cursor.  I think there might be a way to turn off that button zone but I've been too lazy to find out.  At least it has multi-touch so I can scroll around with two fingers.

I even had an old dell xps that had the option to turn off the mouse pad when it detected a usb mouse.  At least I'm pretty sure I'm not making that up.