Frequently, my fingers would seek the touchpad below the keyboard before wandering off to the right.
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The HP Touchpad proved there is a low-end tablet market, albeit at unsustainably low prices.
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That led HP to discontinue the TouchPad after less than two months on the market.
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For more precise tasks, where hand gestures are not accurate, there is a touchpad.
On August 18, HP said it was killing its WebOS-based gadgets, including the TouchPad.
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No, scratch that, the PC company that HP might spin off might revive the TouchPad computer.
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The downside is a finicky touchpad -- HP's machine is clearly superior in that regard.
We still prefer the pointing stick, but the touchpad is decent for navigating as well.
Of course, this could also just be a TouchPad connected to a certain special keyboard.
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Yes, the Touchpad is officially dead, but that hasn't stopped Stanford researcher Andrew B.
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Holbrook, however, may have found a way around this barrier, thanks to a modified Touchpad.
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And no matter how much tweaking I do, the touchpad remains oversensitive to my slow-moving fingers.
After releasing the HP TouchPad, Hewlett-Packard learned that a lower price can change everything.
Its PowerBook came out with a touchpad supplied by a tiny Salt Lake City supplier called Cirque.
Unfortunately for fans of Palm's last hurrah, the project's webOS port died with the HP Touchpad.
Seems fine: the cover cleverly becomes a keyboard and touchpad, and it has a full USB port.
The new controller resembles that of the PlayStation 3, but adds a touchpad and a "share" button.
Additionally, Vizio has updated the trackpad drivers, though the touchpad we tested still felt a bit finicky.
One interface feels better with a touchscreen and gestures, the other with a keyboard and mouse or touchpad.
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Another trick: a laptop with an enormous touchpad that spans the space below the bottom of the keyboard.
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Lee takes some comfort in the fact that the new touchpad in the G4 laptop got bad reviews.
At least the touchpad seems to do a capable job of handling all the various Windows 8 gestures.
The large, button-free touchpad offers plenty of surface area for intuitive scroll, flick, pinch zoom and pivot gestures.
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Kobo, which employs 250 people, up from 20 last year, is still taking a wait-and-see approach to the TouchPad.
In an encouraging example, Samsung announced its first phone with a touchpad scrolling wheel, after seeing one such hack.
The built-in touchpad makes web-surfing a pleasure, while channel and volume buttons are on the edge for easy access.
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Another decision left to be confirmed is the axing of the HP TouchPad.
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However, like the Xoom and PlayBook before it, the TouchPad suffers from an impoverished app library among other holes.
The touchpad is oversensitive, but Google says it can fix that with a browser update that users receive automatically.
WebOS developers continue to wait, even now, several weeks after the introduction of the TouchPad, Pre3 and Veer.
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