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Dell touchpads
Raised as a usability problem by 9 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2008–2023), in 9 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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Touchpad too sensitive, causing stray clicks while typing; right-click needs tapUnreviewed
20082026- Tap to click works poorly, registering unintended or missed taps on trackpad2021-11-03
- Clicking feels awkward after years of using clickpads2019-03-25
- Touchpad sensitivity too high and erroneous clicks while typing; right-click requires tap-to-click2018-04-25
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 11 complaints
- Trackpad is physically exhausting to use compared to MacBook's2023-07-31
- Tap to click works poorly, registering unintended or missed taps on trackpad2021-11-03
- Clicking feels awkward after years of using clickpads2019-03-25
- Pressing Ctrl during a momentum scroll unexpectedly switches to zooming instead of scrolling2018-07-03
- Cheap matte plastic touchpads break and feel bad to use2018-06-14
- Touchpad sensitivity too high and erroneous clicks while typing; right-click requires tap-to-click2018-04-25
- Cursor randomly jumps around while typing, due to palm touching touchpad2017-11-16
- Touchpad is almost unusable when scrolling2013-02-19
- Lacks two-finger scrolling, making work laptops hard to use2008-05-22
- Lacks two-finger scrolling, so the commenter finds it hard to use without it2008-05-22
- Touchpad lacks two-finger scrolling, making it hard to use2008-05-22