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Tap Click on Laptops - Do You Use It?

Tap Click on Laptops - Love it? Hate it?

  • Love Tap Click

    Votes: 37 39.4%

  • Hate Tap Click

    Votes: 37 39.4%

  • What's "Tap Click"

    Votes: 10 10.6%

  • On Planet X Tap Clicking is deadly

    Votes: 10 10.6%
  • Total voters
    94
I tap click unintentionaly. I have big Mongo, gorrilla hands. My hands are like sausages stuck into a mellon.

Every time I put my finger on the pad a message pops up telling me to "please only use one finger."

They'll take away my mouse when they pry it from my cold dead hands.
Speaking of which, I hate those mice that have the two thumb buttons on the side. I am always accidentaly cliking those buttons.

You don't know how many times I've typed out a 10 thousand word manifesto that deftly counters a post on this forum with heartlessly razor sharp logic only to have it dissappear and be replaced by a quick, succinct two word "you suck" reply because my fat sausage of thumb accidentally clicked on those damned mouse buttons.

Bah! Computer technology not Mongo friendly!
 
I thought there had to be 5 feet between the tapper and the clicker for these lap things.
 
I quite like the touchpad on my iBook. I tap click fairly often, and I use the two-finger scrolling constantly.

In fact I'm going to tap-click "Post Quick Reply" now just because. :)
 
I love the tap-click feature on my laptop.

As my laptop is overdue for replacement, tap-click si something that has made my list of "laptop must have it or don't buy it".

It drives my nuts when I use my sister's Mac laptop to make something work for her.
I am too used to being able to tap, that having to click the button is annoying.

Oh, and on HP laptops, there is a little button that disables the touchpad. Useful when typing. Another "must have or don't buy" feature for me.
 
Evilgiraffe said:
Thinkpad Ultranav.
Best. Pointing device. Ever.

So long as you disable the touchpad and only use the "nipple"
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Seconded. Fist thing I do with a new one is disable the touchpad - useless piece of crap.

I've always called that thing the "pencil eraser". Its "nipple" for me from here on out!
 
[X] said:
I love the tap-click feature on my laptop.

As my laptop is overdue for replacement, tap-click si something that has made my list of "laptop must have it or don't buy it".

It drives my nuts when I use my sister's Mac laptop to make something work for her.
I am too used to being able to tap, that having to click the button is annoying.

Oh, and on HP laptops, there is a little button that disables the touchpad. Useful when typing. Another "must have or don't buy" feature for me.
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Apple's have an awesome touchpad, with great tap-click features.

It's just not turn on by default.

Next time, go to the System Preferences:Keyboard & Mouse:Trackpad, and activate "Use two fingers to scroll", "clicking" and "tap trackpad sing two fingers for secondary click" AKA right-click. The latter one is great, and beats a second trackpad button by a light year.

For the accidental activation, Mac OS X has the "Ignore accidental trackpad input" option. I don't know how they do it, but it works pretty well. I can't recall any accidental trackpad incident since I have the MacBook.
 
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arthwollipot said:
I've always called it the G-spot. Because it's a spot, and it's near the letter G. But I've also heard it referred to as the clitmouse.
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While I must admit I prefer the more poetic "clitmouse", I will have little opportunity to use it. I'd be in a "sensitivity awareness" session before the meeting was over. I think I can make "nipple" fly, though.
 
I hate it and disarmed it immediately on mine, along with just about all the other special features.

My laptop has both touchpad and eraserheadclitmouse, and I prefer the eraserclit, except that it has always had a habit of drifting after a while. The only way to stop it is to use the touchpad for a moment then tap it (works with tap turned off, don't ask why cuz I don't know!), so I leave both enabled.
 
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I don't use it. I don't hate it and I certainly don't love it. So Planet X for me.

What makes a man turn neutral?
 
I hate it, but I've never had the presence of mind to find out if it can be disabled. Now I will. (Thanks again JREF forum).

In theory, it's a great idea and with a bit of practice it should save some time. However, since I'm usually using the laptop for remotely managing servers I daren't risk even the occasional slip.
 
Interesting. I voted "what is tap-click". Then I tried it (I'm doodling away time in hotel-room in China). My laptop has it (IBM T43). Only it should be "bash-click". Certainly no risk of activating it accidentially.

Never use the silly pad anyway. I have a small cheap USB mouse I bring anywhere, - or in a tight spot, I use the little red clitoris-button in the keyboard.

Hans
 
arthwollipot said:
I've always called it the G-spot. Because it's a spot, and it's near the letter G. But I've also heard it referred to as the clitmouse.
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Clearly, both are totally inappropriate terms, the thing is much too easy to find.



ETA: And what have you just done to your avatar, H3LL?
 
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I used taping exclusively on my old laptop many years ago (the click button was broken so I didn't have a choice). Now I mostly use the clicker except during meetings. Some games can be tap intensive and would cause a distraction.
 
zooterkin said:
ETA: And what have you just done to your avatar, H3LL?
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I'm involved with dglas' on-line 1st edition AD&D, originally suggested on these forums. That's my Dwarf Cleric, apparently about to show the girl the biggest weapon she has laid eyes upon.

Do you think I should change it back?

;)

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