Lenovo Wireless Windows 8 TouchPad $30 + Free shipping

actually, I was using Chrome which has no touch support or gesture support. I should've tried IE10. IE10 has fabulous touch support. Firefox has bad touch support (it takes like half a second between when you do the motion and when it actually happens).

*EDIT* after further use of the zoom feature, I take back some of my negativity. It doesn't work as responsively as a touch screen but it works better than I initially said. Even in Chrome, I could zoom which is something you can't do with a touch screen.

now, if the Logitech has great zoom support, that would TOTALLY SWAY me toward the Logitech, even $15 more for it. After $15, I'd probably stick with the Lenovo.

now, just to clarify. the biggest advantages of this touchpad over traditional trackpads or mice/trackballs is the display desktop and display Start screen motions. and the volume controls. these are AWESOME with the touchpad. there's no equivalent for a mouse or a keyboard (they depend on the Windows key). in fact, the touchpad is better than even a touchscreen in terms of volume controls (of course, if you have a multimedia keyboard with volume controls, that decreases the benefit of the touchpad volume controls). another cool gesture that I didn't even know until now... you can do the swipe from top to down to close windows and desktop apps! before, I thought with desktop apps or open windows, you had to click on the eXit button. I found out by accidentally closing a photo program with the swipe.

here are some pics I took:
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Quote from dirtyvu : ... here's my impressions of the touchpad:

Terrific write-up, thanks. +++

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Thanks for all the info since there's so little of it.

I think I remember someone saying that you could kind of hear/feel the click of the pad while using it when you were just moving the mouse cursor and not clicking. Did you find that happens with yours? Also, how does it differentiate left/right clicks?

Quote from Outrager : Thanks for all the info since there's so little of it. I think I remember someone saying that you could kind of hear/feel the click of the pad while using it when you were just moving the mouse cursor and not clicking. Did you find that happens with yours? Also, how does it differentiate left/right clicks?

I personally don't click the pad to do left clicks. I use it like a trackpad and I do a tap on the pad for a left click. I didn't have the experience that other person had. Normal use of the touchpad will not click the pad. You actually have to push against a spring to get it to click, and I can't imagine being so heavy-handed that normal use would click it. Maybe he rested his hand on the trackpad?

Now to do an actual click... imagine a teeter-toter. if you click to the left of the fulcrum, it'll be a left click. if you click to the right, it'll be a right click. the pad will actually sink when you physically give it a solid push. if you click it in the middle, it's a 50/50 shot whether it'll be a right or left click. now, it's possible to click higher up in the pad but then it's a matter of physics. meaning, since it's farther away, you have to press with more force to get it to actuate. though I can't imagine a person preferring clicking the pad rather than tapping it.

right-clicking is taking some adjusting for me. since your finger is both controlling the cursor and actuating the button press, sometimes as my finger is clicking down to do the right-click, I end up shifting the mouse cursor so I miss what I wanted to right-click. I'm also trying to get used to right-clicking without looking at the pad. it's silly to take your eyes off the screen just to right-click.

I know buttons are ugly. But they're practical. If there were true buttons, I wouldn't worry about moving the mouse cursor while pressing the button.

Just to supplement dirtyvu's review, I am using this on a windows 7 Lenovo t430s. It is fully supported by windows 7. Just plug it in and it works without loading any drivers, at least on my machine, which is fairly up to date. Of course windows 8 specific gestures don't work, like pulling up the charms bar etc. However, four finger swipe down brings you to the desktop. Three finger swipe horizontal will move you forward and back. Two finger scroll is the best I've seen on a non Mac machine. Five finger gestures can control the volume, though kinda silly as I have those controls on my keyboard. Very responsive; actually quite impressed. It works better than the native touch pad on the t430s. I'm running the computer on a dock with a 27" IPS extreme def monitor. I have a mouse to my right and the touch pad to my left. I wouldn't like it with just the pad and no mouse, but it actually is a nice supplement. I plan on migrating to windows 8 shortly, and felt the touch pad was a necessity, however it does work with windows 7 no problems at all.

This thing works great for an HTPC running win 8 if you do minimal typing. You can use this trackpad and the onscreen win8 keyboard for everything.

yeah, for me the 5-finger gesture for volume is special because my desktop keyboards are old-fashioned with no volume controls on them.

and for my laptops, only one has dedicated volume buttons. the others require me to hold down a function key. I'd rather do a 1-hand gesture than use 2 hands to adjust volume.

Quote from dirtyvu : alright, here's my impressions of the touchpad: There are no drivers or software to install. It recognizes as a standard HID... ... ... I've changed the diagram and reorganized it to make it make more sense. Hopefully it helps some people out there: http://i50.tinypic.com/2jc9dhz.jpg ... ... ...I'll stick with the Lenovo and see if I can adapt to this mixing paradigm.

Quote from dirtyvu : ... *EDIT* after further use of the zoom feature, I take back some of my negativity. It doesn't work as responsively as a touch screen but it works better than I initially said. ... now, just to clarify. the biggest advantages of this touchpad over traditional trackpads or mice/trackballs is the display desktop and display Start screen motions. and the volume controls. these are AWESOME with the touchpad. ...

Great write-up. Thanks! Repped!

I just received delivery of the Lenovo touchpad yesterday. Plugged it in and played around with it for 5 minutes. Your hints will be of great help in figuring out how to work the controls.

Quote from 1dash1 : Great write-up. Thanks! Repped! I just received delivery of the Lenovo touchpad yesterday. Plugged it in and played around with it for 5 minutes. Your hints will be of great help in figuring out how to work the controls.

I received mines Monday, tried them last night with my Win8 install... not impressed =/ Maybe I expected too much!

Quote from werds : I received mines Monday, tried them last night with my Win8 install... not impressed =/ Maybe I expected too much!

I'm not too impressed either...now that I look at the gestures the Logitech T650 supports, I think they would me much more condusive to workflow.