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I notice that the trackpad on The Surface Touch/Type cover are fairly small and my fingers barely fit on it. Does anyone know of any news for future covers with enhanced trackpads?
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So, you suspect people will prefer the touchpad experience over the touch monitor experience?If you buy a new touch enabled PC, let's say a Lenovo Thinkpad with a touchscreen, chances are that you will end up using the touchpad versus the touchscreen. It's because on that Lenovo, the touchpad enables ALL the touch gestures of Windows 8 right where a traditional input is always at on a laptop. So effectively, you might not use the touchscreen, and won't really use or experience a new touch input for a new Windows version designed better for that input.
So, you suspect people will prefer the touchpad experience over the touch monitor experience?If you buy a new touch enabled PC, let's say a Lenovo Thinkpad with a touchscreen, chances are that you will end up using the touchpad versus the touchscreen. It's because on that Lenovo, the touchpad enables ALL the touch gestures of Windows 8 right where a traditional input is always at on a laptop. So effectively, you might not use the touchscreen, and won't really use or experience a new touch input for a new Windows version designed better for that input.
.So, you suspect people will prefer the touchpad experience over the touch monitor experience?If you buy a new touch enabled PC, let's say a Lenovo Thinkpad with a touchscreen, chances are that you will end up using the touchpad versus the touchscreen. It's because on that Lenovo, the touchpad enables ALL the touch gestures of Windows 8 right where a traditional input is always at on a laptop. So effectively, you might not use the touchscreen, and won't really use or experience a new touch input for a new Windows version designed better for that input.
Possibly, not that the touchscreen aspect is bad, it's just personal traditional input habits tend to die hard. So when you have a touchpad where it's been for the past 15 years, you tend to use that. But if you just have the touchscreen and a keyboard, you will use the touchscreen. I've been using a touch AIO without a mouse and with a physical keyboard, haven't really needed one AT ALL.
No.... You're trying to warp my words around to declare a point....So, you suspect people will prefer the touchpad experience over the touch monitor experience?
Possibly, not that the touchscreen aspect is bad, it's just personal traditional input habits tend to die hard. So when you have a touchpad where it's been for the past 15 years, you tend to use that. But if you just have the touchscreen and a keyboard, you will use the touchscreen. I've been using a touch AIO without a mouse and with a physical keyboard, haven't really needed one AT ALL.
So, some might not prefer the touchscreen route, but if we make it the only real option than they will have to use it and thus we can declare touch screens to be a success because that is what all people are using.
No.... You're trying to warp my words around to declare a point....Possibly, not that the touchscreen aspect is bad, it's just personal traditional input habits tend to die hard. So when you have a touchpad where it's been for the past 15 years, you tend to use that. But if you just have the touchscreen and a keyboard, you will use the touchscreen. I've been using a touch AIO without a mouse and with a physical keyboard, haven't really needed one AT ALL.
So, some might not prefer the touchscreen route, but if we make it the only real option than they will have to use it and thus we can declare touch screens to be a success because that is what all people are using.
The point I'M trying to get across is that if you have two options of input, gesture enabled touchpad and touchscreen, on a laptop, depending on your personal habits, some will use the touchpad over the touchscreen and just ignore it and only use it from time to time. Thus, defeats the WHOLE point here. On the Surface covers, the touchpad is a netbook sized one with no gesture capabilities, as to not take away from the touch tablet PC computing experience; which makes you use the touchscreen, which makes the whole thing worthwhile. It would be DREADFULLY pointless to buy a touch enabled PC only to not touch it. But really though, there very little need for a mouse when you use a touchscreen. Maybe it's just me and everyone else or whatever, but even on the Surface Pro with its resolution and DPI settings, it's rather fine. If you needed more fine input, there is a stylus.