@chilipalm Scrolling and surface area. To scroll on this device, you have to move your finger in a circular motion (like on an ipod), and you can only scroll in one direction. It's difficult because if you deviate from the edge of the circle, you stop scrolling. And for the same width/height dimensions, you could have a bigger square touchpad.
@bigcow05 This is simply not the case with Toughbook touchpads. You can scroll in both directions (back and forth or horizontal and vertical, depending on your definition) And once you initiate the circular scrolling by circling around the edge of the trackpad (trigger zone can be fine tuned to your liking), even if you go off the egdes you can still keep scrolling anywhere on the trackpad as long as you make a circular motion around the center of the trackpad.
Ah, perhaps the new ones have fixed this? I used a 10 inch Toughbook (can't remember the model number) for a few months at an internship about 4 years back; it would only scroll left-right when there was a horizontal scrollbar but no vertical one. When there was both a vertical and horizontal scrollbar, it would only scroll vertically.
@EDALBNUG As for the pointer finger leaving the scroll area, it was really really difficult for me to scroll quickly. Slow scrolling was not a problem, but quick scrolling was just terribly annoying and erratic. Maybe it's just me?
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What's wrong with circular trackpads?
@chilipalm
Scrolling and surface area. To scroll on this device, you have to move your finger in a circular motion (like on an ipod), and you can only scroll in one direction. It's difficult because if you deviate from the edge of the circle, you stop scrolling. And for the same width/height dimensions, you could have a bigger square touchpad.
@bigcow05 This is simply not the case with Toughbook touchpads. You can scroll in both directions (back and forth or horizontal and vertical, depending on your definition) And once you initiate the circular scrolling by circling around the edge of the trackpad (trigger zone can be fine tuned to your liking), even if you go off the egdes you can still keep scrolling anywhere on the trackpad as long as you make a circular motion around the center of the trackpad.
@EDALBNUG
Ah, perhaps the new ones have fixed this? I used a 10 inch Toughbook (can't remember the model number) for a few months at an internship about 4 years back; it would only scroll left-right when there was a horizontal scrollbar but no vertical one. When there was both a vertical and horizontal scrollbar, it would only scroll vertically.
@EDALBNUG
As for the pointer finger leaving the scroll area, it was really really difficult for me to scroll quickly. Slow scrolling was not a problem, but quick scrolling was just terribly annoying and erratic. Maybe it's just me?