{"id":15739,"date":"2010-03-23T08:46:58","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T13:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=15739"},"modified":"2010-03-23T08:46:58","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T13:46:58","slug":"smart-planet-why-are-laptop-touchpads-so-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/smart-planet-why-are-laptop-touchpads-so-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart Planet: Why Are Laptop Touchpads So Bad?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/johnwp.jpg\" alt=\"johnd\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"attachment wp-att-7652 alignleft\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By John Dodge<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartplanet.com\/technology\/blog\/thinking-tech\/why-are-laptop-touchpads-so-bad\/3478\/?tag=content\" target=\"_blank\">smartplanet.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Does this happen to you? You want to go from point A to B on your laptop display and your touchpad mouse pointer randomly darts across the screen leaving a trail of unwanted open windows and applications. It\u2019s like I am in Miami today and want to head for a spring training game in Fort Myers (I am) and inexplicably end up in Jacksonville.<\/p>\n<p>Or the pointer races across the screen turning the content blue as if selecting for cutting or pasting. Or the pointer just wanders like gravity is weighing it down\u2026or up. Or it doesn\u2019t move at all as you try to regain tactile control on the touchpad.<\/p>\n<p>Erratic touchpad mouse behavior happens all the time (several times while writing this post).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartplanet.com\/technology\/blog\/thinking-tech\/why-are-laptop-touchpads-so-bad\/3478\/?tag=content\" target=\"_blank\">Why can\u2019t laptop pointing devices be more reliable and perhaps less smart? Or schizoid. 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