Ur_Mom
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VERY VERY true. I can do it now, but it took a lot of time. Still, it's far from perfect. I used to have a mouse connected to the laptop because it's just not efficient to use the trackpad.
I keep seeing people side-stepping something I think should be important here...
"I use windows out on my desktop with a keyboard and mouse without a problem"
Well I dare you to put it on your laptop and watch your productivity decline. This was my beef with it. It took what were reasonable tablet gestures (swipe in from side, corner, etc) and integrated them into the touchpad. This SOUNDS like a great idea, but remember that touchpad is a couple inches in size, and your basically taking an inch off each side for gestures. I could barely use it unless I used the center 1" of space (which I rarely used) without triggering some menu, switching windows, etc. and keep in mind that while most of us here could hunt down and turn those features off even if they were buried or even required registry hacks, the average Joe (and often average CEO) cant and will just get frustrated.
THIS is the reason I hate windows 8, it wants to be a tablet OS and it wants to impose tablet features on laptop users who aren't using a massive 7-10+ inch interface, some of us are working with a 2" trackpad!
Yes, there are some features that are nice, like the 2-finger scrolling and 2-finger right-click, but there's a point where the more you pile on the less useful the device gets...