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Dell Precision laptops
Raised as a usability problem by 15 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2015–2024), in 15 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Trackpad reads palms as input, making cursor jump or click unexpectedlyUnreviewed
20152026- Trackpad misreads palms as input, so the cursor jumps or clicks unexpectedly2022-04-15
- Palm routinely clicks the oversized trackpad while typing; cursor jumps after fast movement2022-03-11
- Touchpad registers clicks when the laptop flexes or unevenly pressed on a lap2022-03-11
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 17 complaints
- Two-finger tap and right-side click for right-click are unreliable and infuriating2024-06-10
- Home and End share keys with F11 and F12, making them hard to press2022-10-26
- Trackpad misreads palms as input, so the cursor jumps or clicks unexpectedly2022-04-15
- Palm routinely clicks the oversized trackpad while typing; cursor jumps after fast movement2022-03-11
- Touchpad registers clicks when the laptop flexes or unevenly pressed on a lap2022-03-11
- Trackpad registers phantom clicks and feels mechanically loose when pressed2022-02-14
- Trackpad clicks get stuck, inadvertently dragging tabs and items when clicking2019-10-20
- Laptop is unusable because the 5400 RPM hard drive makes it very slow2019-03-19
- Cursor jumps while clicking on the touchpad2018-06-14
- Chassis flexes so much the trackpad won't click when held from one side2018-01-05
- Trackpad can't be clicked while holding the laptop because the chassis flexes2017-10-08
- Touchpad is impossible to use out of the box due to palm interference2017-07-31
- Display scaling is terrible when switching between the 4K built-in screen and an external monitor2016-08-15
- Keyboard had phantom and double keypresses, making it nearly unusable until kernel 3.192016-04-16
- Wifi rarely works and GPU switching causes screen tearing, making GPU unusable2016-04-15
- Page up/down and home/end keys moved behind Fn, awkward to reach2016-02-17
- Trackpad feels overly sensitive and jumpy, making the pointer hard to control2015-03-16