Comments on: I Love Trackpads!

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:11:44 +0000

Can play Team fortress2 with a track pad. If you do, let me know and I will happily glue you back together…. in hell! TF2 players will know what I mean.

By: Dousatsu

Dousatsu — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:46:47 +0000

Definitely. A trackpad is great if you’re doing a lot of word processing, where you need to move your right hand between the mouse and keyboard a lot, but if you’re using CS4 all day and barely take your hand off the mouse, then its just sub-par.

Try using the pen tool in illustrator with a trackpad…its a nightmare! Not to mention brushing/burning/etc in photoshop. And I don’t think its a case of “having to get used to it”…I’ve been using a macbook pro for a fair few years and I still can’t stand shooping with the trackpad.

Gaming is another obvious one, but I also find tracking in general is just annoying…I want to have the sensitivity low enough to make precise adjustments in CS, but high enough to track to the other side of the screen without it taking 10 strokes with my finger. You always have to make a compromise, whereas the mouse has a wider range due to the size of the mousepad and your precise hand movements.

By: Stephen Abraham

Stephen Abraham — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:46:59 +0000

I have permanent injury to my wrists and can’t use a mouse.
Can use a trackball on its side AND use my iphone as a trackpad with iTap which is awesome.

Bring on ‘thought control’ I say!

By: Adam Dumicich

Adam Dumicich — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:34:07 +0000

I couldn’t agree more

By: King Trash

King Trash — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:58:18 +0000

I’m not entirely convinced – the idea of using photoshop and illustrator, or gaming every day with a trackpad sounds terrible to me.

While I’m a big fan of the trackpad, if I’m using my computer for extended periods of time I always change to a mouse simply because I find that it’s more accurate, faster, and ultimately more comfortable.