Posted on 11/24/2022 10:50:30 PM PST by Paul R.
I play fairly high graphics 3D games on my laptop with only 3.6 gigs of ram and a Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller.
Great day for shopping. BradsDeals.com lists great deals, and has a Black Friday sales link. I’m pretty sure you can search for an item.
5 yrs ago I left a job and bought a 15.6 touchscreen ssd Lenovo with extended battery. Best darn money I ever spent. It has been a rockstar performer.
Flight Simulator must be a blast on those...
swears up and down on Chromebook
Does that mean good or bad? I was thinking of getting a Chromebook. Thanks
I find the best way to use a touchpad is to plug in a mouse and ignore the touchpad...
Buy a wireless mouse.
The touchpads are great. However, I still prefer using a mouse on the non-Apple laptops. On my Apple MacBook, I've never had need for a mouse as the touchpad works so perfectly once you've mastered the basic skills.
Keep looking then. I'm a Thinkpad business series fan. W series(W500 - W530 etc) or the newer P series(P50, P70 etc)
Lenovo leases out their business series laptops by the many thousands to large companies so they're made prettyw well, else said companies would go with some other brand. I buy mine used off of ebay.
The answer is simple.
Go to Walmart and buy a wireless mouse/keyboard combo
You don’t need the keyboard but if you come to the conclusion that at home, a monitor will be nice, the keyboard becomes necessary.
Any way, the keyless mouse eliminates the vagaries of the touch pad. It requires no effort, just plug in the small device into a USB slot and go to work. No learning curve involved
No prob., and, thanks!
That’s way more machine than I need, tho’. My old (2nd gen i3?) HP did plenty well, although the 14” screen had both it’s advantages (compact) and disadvantage (viewing area).
This would likely do:
https://www.officedepot.com/a/products/1676428/HP-15-ef2723od-Laptop-156-Screen/
I might look at swapping in a bigger SSD and upgrading my little netbook with the 256 GB drive from this one.
Dell xps 13 is reportedly the best PC. If I was still programming I’d choose it for personal use. I have an older XPS 15 and it was good.
The thinner models have heat build up which slows them down.
Since retiring my M1 Macbook Air does the job nicely. The Mousepad is the bomb. My model can keep itself cool enough it doesn’t have a fan. I really like that and it doesn’t get hot. If you are willing to learn the M1 Air is a great laptop.
Thanks all. Heading out to hit Menards for a couple tools. (crowd should be diminished a bit.)
Will follow up further later!
A former project manager had a somewhat ribald nickname for that, having to do with female anatomy.
It can be done on all touchpads...most will have a click function on different areas of the pad. Not ideal though if you do it a lot. But mice are cheap and plug and play on laptops.
I just bought two interesting laptops: an Acer Swift 5 i7 that weighs less than 2 lb. with a 14 inch HD touchscreen, is .60 inches thick, and gives me a good 10 hours of battery life, and an Acer Concept D Ezel with a 17.8 UHD touchscreen. I really like them both.
-Move the cursor before the first word of those you wish to copy.
-Press and hold down the left side of the touch pad.
-Without picking up your finger, keep the touch pad pressed down and drag the cursor over all the words you want to copy. (You’ll see them highlighted).
-Pick up your finger
-Either two-finger tap (same as right click) the touch pad and select copy or select Ctrl+C to copy and Ctrl+V to paste.
get a plug in mouse
Touch pads are infuriating until they're not. They take some practice but afterwards are faster and offer more options than a mouse. Those who use a full size keyboard instead of a laptop keyboard can buy a separate touch pad.
When the first computer mouse came out, users had a difficult time but mastered it quickly. Of course, they had Minesweeper to help them.
In addition to being faster than the mouse, the payoff is that you can always revert to a mouse if you're using a different computer but if you're ever stuck with just the touch pad, you'll have no problem.
I've used a red keyboard button, a mouse, a track ball, and now a touch pad. For ease, speed, and convenience, I rank a touch pad best, a track ball second best, a mouse a distant third, and a red keyboard button/joystick a very distant last.
Buy a mouse and plug it in. The HP laptops used to come with trackpads that could be turned on and off with a double tap in one of the corners, but they don’t appear to use those any longer. Trackpads are a pain in my big ass, btw.
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