New company laptop: Lenovo X220 or T420 - Hmmmm

[kevinsbane]

What's wrong with the enter key? It's bigger and takes up a little more room?

 

[beginner99]

X220 is fine laptop. The mainy issues I have with it are:

Trackpad scrolling is HORRIBLE regardless of the driver. I don't get it. I think it's a windows issue. My eeePC trackpad was just as horrible to, then I put linux on it and scrolling worked perfectly as one would expect.

Then the Fn key is the bottom left key not the Ctrl key. That is just annoying...

 

[chubbyfatazn]

What's wrong with the enter key? It's bigger and takes up a little more room?

US models still have the rectangular enter key. My guess is he's in the UK.

The whole Fn-Ctrl thing is pretty stale, they've been that way for decades on a Thinkpad. There's a switch in the BIOS that lets you remap the keys.

I'm still using my X61T as my primary machine. Can't beat that 1400x1050 goodness.

 

[jrocks84]

X220 is fine laptop. The mainy issues I have with it are:

Trackpad scrolling is HORRIBLE regardless of the driver. I don't get it. I think it's a windows issue. My eeePC trackpad was just as horrible to, then I put linux on it and scrolling worked perfectly as one would expect.

Then the Fn key is the bottom left key not the Ctrl key. That is just annoying...

Personally, I put the blame on Synaptics drivers for Windows. I had to use a program I found called TwoFingerScroll to get two-finger scrolling that didn't jump to the top or bottom of the page all the time. I put the link below if you want to try it out.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/hp-...oll-two-finger-scrolling-done-right-more.html

 

[kevinsbane]

Two finger scroll is pretty hard to get right on the x220. I got it at a usable pace now, it doesn't get really jumpy. I had to turn the sensitivity way down on the scroll speed.

But mostly I use Trackpoint + middle button for scrolling. I'll use the two finger scroll for reading.

And the Fn/Ctrl thing is literally the first thing I swapped on it! Pissed me off so badly when coming from a Dell 700m.... "Ctrl-C Ctrl-V wait nothing happened.... oh right, stupid fn key."

 

[beginner99]

Personally, I put the blame on Synaptics drivers for Windows. I had to use a program I found called TwoFingerScroll to get two-finger scrolling that didn't jump to the top or bottom of the page all the time. I put the link below if you want to try it out.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/hp-...oll-two-finger-scrolling-done-right-more.html

Yeah read about that one but I would actually need one-finger-scroll done right.

The issue is the detection of the scroll.IMHO the right side of the pad should be by hardware different so it can only be used for scrolling. Then there would also be no unintended behavior (accidental link clicking as example) if the scrolling doesn't get registered properly.

But yeah I agree. Blame synaptics too. is there any other driver suit on windows besides synaptics?

 

[Chaotic42]

What's wrong with the enter key? It's bigger and takes up a little more room?

I like my enter keys the way God intended: one row high and two keys across.