Does the touchpad work? I've seen 3 different ASUS notebook models, including this one, at Best Buy over the last few months, and none had touchpads where the gestures like two finger scrolling worked. Control Panel showed that the Elan driver and gestures were enabled, but they didn't work. Didn't even show the touchpad icon in the system area. Employees were also unable to make them scroll when I asked about it. Anyone had trouble with them? Does the touchpad work? I've seen 3 different ASUS notebook models, including this one, at Best Buy over the last few months, and none had touchpads where the gestures like two finger scrolling... » Read More Does the touchpad work? I've seen 3 different ASUS notebook models, including this one, at Best Buy over the last few months, and none had touchpads where the gestures like two finger scrolling worked. Control Panel showed that the Elan driver and gestures were enabled, but they didn't work. Didn't even show the touchpad icon in the system area. Employees were also unable to make them scroll when I asked about it. Anyone had trouble with them? « Show Less
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FWIW, at a Best Buy in another city, their ASUS notebooks had two finger scrolling working properly and the icons showing in the tray area. Must be something in the setup wrong at the store near me. I finally opted for the Gateway EC5801u which is also a thin, light, longlife model like these ASUS machines. It uses a Synaptic touchpad with a spiral scrolling gesture that I've quickly come to like. Swirl your finger round and round in a circle and it scrolls like controlling an ipod.
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I've had problems with them. The 2 finger scroll does not work. The other options work though, such as setting it to maximize a page with 2 finger tap or returning to desktop with 3 finger tap. You can set those to perform other options too. But you are right, finger scrolling does not work.
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The touchpad works as a clickpad. To left click you can either tap the touchpad, or you can press down and click the entire touch surface to perform a left click.I havn't had a chance to actually confirm this (I'll do so tomorrow when I have a chance) but the intuitive thing that I'm very sure I've done in the past in order to right click is to either tap or click in the in the lower right corner of the touchpad. The touchpad is very responsive and responds very well to either clicks or gestures. It's on par with the best laptop touchpads I've used.
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I bought mine to work with SketchUp, where it performs flawlessly. With other apps, there are application profiles (in the beta driver for sure, in the latest drivers possibly as well) where you can associate device actions with keystrokes\mouse actions. Tried using it in Corel X5 \ PS and my media player, but results were mixed (lots of time to set up, sometimes laggy performance, inefficiency of keystroke\mouse emulation vs "native" plugin approach). If I had more time I might try figuring it out, but generally, works best with 3D apps.
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I had the same problem. I disabled the drag feature of the elan touchpad and then downloaded touchfreeze - freeware that seems to have fixed the problem.
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No. When I got it I was comparing to another Asus model that was the same size but with touch screen, but I can't remember what it was called.The touchscreen models have touchscreen prominently featured in the title or text.
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I'm on the same fence. While I haven't driven the Samsung, I did use the Asus today and found the click buttons extremely stiff. Do these "break in" and become easier to click after time? That was my only negative with this machine. How is the touchpad and clicking on the Samsung in comparison?
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I have not encountered the problem of the touchpad, Can you elaborate point?Move the mouse or gesture is not responding?would you ever connected to the official website updated driver?after my operating system installation finished, the machine automatically connected with the official website of a major update, I do not know whether I can help you.
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Touch pad scrolling is enabled, and supports the standard windows 8 gestures like two finger scrolling and pinch-to-zoom, etc. A lot of others are supported but can't remember off the top of my head. Samsung has published new drivers for the touchpad as well as most other hardware on the computer since the posting of the majority of these reviews.
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It's a great little laptop, but it is not a touchscreen. I believe that they may have a new model out that does have a touch screen. Not really an issue for me since I can't stand Windows 8.
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Hi, this notebook does not have the touch screen function. This is something I did not want however if this is a must have for you maybe you should consider another model.
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Yes - most applications support the asus smart gesture - which goes further than most other gesture interfaces i've seen. Pinch to zoom on the screen and two finger scrolling on the track pad work great, but there are also 3 finger gestures/gestures from the edge of the screen/track pad that help with navigating windows 8. It's the nicest touch pad I've experienced on a laptop.
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The C2K03UA model Sleekbook does not have a touch screen. The "touch gestures" that are referenced on the details page is in regards to the gestures you can use on the touch pad of your laptop. The touchpad is the pad under year keyboard which is typical of laptops. The picture of the laptop you see on Amazon has a laptop showing the Windows 8 layout on screen which makes it appear as if you would be able to touch items on your screen, but the laptop does not have a touch screen.
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We have experienced two laptops we had to return, they are freezing up during upload. The first we had someone look @ right away and was told to return for hard drive was bad. When 2nd one came and started the same problem we sent it back the following day. When we tried to contact Acer because we could'nt even get online with is they wanted $20.00 right away to try to help. That did if for me. We are still waiting for refund from Amazon.!!! Any touchpad was ok, it was centered correctly. Good Luck!!!
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Yes, we had a problem with the touchpad being pressed while using the keyboard and USB mouse. Fortunately, there is a setting that automatically disables the touchpad whenever a USB mouse is plugged in. Also, we had to disable the Win 8 gestures on the touch pad, because it kept doing weird things like pulling up the Windows 8 sidebar (which we never use).
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The touchpad handles right clicks by tap in the lower right hand corner. There is no physical button and there is no click noise. It works well. By the way, I've been using Chromebooks recently, and I thought they had a two finger tap for a right click, but maybe not. That's another story.
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no problem with the touchpad. I'm very happy with Adesso products .... i have a couple of their keyboards.... and they are fantastic
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For me the touchpad is smooth and responds nicely. I do pair mine though with a wireless mouse often or I'll use a stylus. Hope this helps! It is a great ultrabook!