Good lord. Slap that on a golf cart and you are good to go.
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Good lord. Slap that on a golf cart and you are good to go.
I've been using a touchpad since starting college two-and-a-half years ago. People laughed at me, suggested tasks would be much faster with a mouse, and even told me that I would not be employable using a touchpad.
I've gone through three mice, the latest one being a "CAD Mouse". Yes, it's nice, but I still see much faster production with a touchpad because I'm not constantly moving my arm back and forth from the keyboard to the mouse.
There are several add-on software solutions available for enhancing the touchpad's usefulness, improving two-, three-, and four-finger gestures. They work well. One argument against this is that these software must be programmed. My response was that their mouse buttons all have to be programmed as well.
My CAD laptop, the HP Zbook 15, has a middle touchpad button. It's a very useful feature to have. I highly recommend it. This laptop is used for all CAD, Revit, Inventor, Sketchup, and other designing software. It's portable. I don't have to tell clients to wait until I get to a desktop for me to build / edit something for them. And, what's more, I don't have to fish around in my bag for a mouse or move stuff all over the desk to use it.
This post is turning into a laptop justification post. So be it.
All laptops have touchpads. Newer ones have multi-touch capabilities. For someone like myself who has a shoulder injury and who uses his laptop [I]on his lap[I], it's a very useful feature.
For my next feat, I'm searching ways of using a touchscreen. We'll see.