Logitech Wireless Touchpad with Multi-Touch Navigation (910-002345)
List Price: $49.99
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Logitech Wireless Touchpad. Point, scroll, swipe-naturally. With intuitive, gesture-based controls, it’s a snap to point, scroll and swipe your way to wherever you go on the Web and more. Plus, the large touch surface gives you plenty of room to let your fingertips do the clicking.
- Intuitive multi-touch navigation: Point, scroll and swipe your way through the web with gesture-based controls
- Wireless simplicity: Robust and reliable connection with a tiny Unifying receiver that stays in your computer
- Compatibility: For Windows 7 computers only
- Clutter-free wireless device: No cords or hassles-put it anywhere on your desk or tabletop and start navigating
- Roomy touchpad: Large (5-inch) touch surface for easy browsing with your fingertips
I bought this thinking that it would bring a little bit more of a Mac like experience to my windows 7 desktop. My experience after using it for over a week as my primary mouse is that I’m ready to go back to my trackball. The device has a number of shortcomings. Not all of the surface can be used for scrolling. There is a good amount of dead space around the edges. The surface itself is just plastic. On a Macbook Pro it is glass and your fingers just glide across the surface. The two finger scrolling behavior cannot be customized so if you are using OS X Lion and coming to this your muscle memory will need to adapt. Also the scrolling jumps around sometimes when you take your fingers off and put them back on. I briefly thought about turning the pad around but the driver options are pretty limited and you cannot switch the left & right mouse button behavior nor the axis that the pointer moves when using a single finger. The gesture support in the device seems to be limited to just 1-4 fingers moving in a single direction. There are no advanced gestures such as the pinch & zoom gesture found in just about every tablet, smart phone and Mac these days. The device can perform a click on tap but I find myself tapping more than once to get it to be recognized. More often I just resort to the mouse buttons which are near my thumb but after half a day of use I can feel some strain in my thumb from the weird clicking angle my hand is usually in. This device should be purchased if you want a solid basic touch pad like you would find in a basic no frills laptop. If you are looking for something that will give you advanced multi-touch features and a comfortable user experience pass on this device..
After reading all the other reviews here, I was worried that I’d be getting something that was clumsy to use or that wouldn’t connect easily, but my hands hurt from too much mousing, so I went for it anyway. It plugged right in to a USB port and immediately worked fine with my Microsoft wireless mouse and keyboard. That’s all there was to it. The mouse works fine too, and I can switch between them just by using the device I want.I’ve only occasionally used the Apple touchpad, but I have other Windows-based touchpad devices, and this is just as good as any of them. It’s not an iPad, but it’s a great way to vary the motions my hands make all day long when I use my computer.
Great little product. Simple to install – just plug in the receiver. Win 7 did the rest. The only bother is that it shut off my laptop’s touchpad, which I hadn’t really counted on. When surfing, that’s fine. Not so great when typing and working. I kinda wish there was a simple way to switch in between pads or perhaps keep both active. Small issue, though. All the gestures work and work well. Much better than the trackpad on my Asus.