Laptop driving me nuts

[zoco]

It's that useless, wanky assembly just in front of the keyboard that is supposed to approximate a mouse what's it called? A touch pad or something?

Well, I've never liked them because of the position your arms have to be in to type - it's like eating with fecking chopsticks.

Anyway - the one I have on my supposedly top of the range Sony Vaio Ultrabook is particularly bad. Left button click keeps getting stuck down such that I can't do a left mouse click or it gets stuck after doing a mouse click such that I find myself in permanent drag and drop mode and I unwittingly move stuff (particularly in Windows Explorer) never to be found again.

Even when it's working the left clicks are interpreted as right clicks half the time meaning I'm spending all my time dismissing unwanted context menus.

What are wireless mice like these days? Had one a few years ago and it was ******* useless....

[Jubber]

reminds me of that joke:

Bloke goes to the Doctor's and pulls out a steering wheel from his trousers!
The Doctor says "WTF is that?"
Bloke says "I don't know Doc, but it's driving me nuts"

Boom Boom

[TestMangler]

It's that useless, wanky assembly just in front of the keyboard that is supposed to approximate a mouse what's it called? A touch pad or something?

Well, I've never liked them because of the position your arms have to be in to type - it's like eating with fecking chopsticks.

Anyway - the one I have on my supposedly top of the range Sony Vaio Ultrabook is particularly bad. Left button click keeps getting stuck down such that I can't do a left mouse click or it gets stuck after doing a mouse click such that I find myself in permanent drag and drop mode and I unwittingly move stuff (particularly in Windows Explorer) never to be found again.

Even when it's working the left clicks are interpreted as right clicks half the time meaning I'm spending all my time dismissing unwanted context menus.

What are wireless mice like these days? Had one a few years ago and it was ******* useless....

Wireless mice are just fine

[vetran]

its a Vaio nuff said.

was going to do a parody thread called 'Laptop toasting me nuts' but you have enough problems.

[aoxomoxoa]

Wireless mice are just fine

USB wireless mice are fine. Blueteeth (?) mice are a royal PITA - frequent/random disconnections IME.

[mudskipper]

its a Vaio nuff said.

was going to do a parody thread called 'Laptop toasting me nuts' but you have enough problems.

ms#5 had an unexplained rash across his thighs.

After some googling, we concluded it was "toasted skin syndrome". I was mortified. He now has a newspaper between lap and laptop.

[scooterscot]

It will always cost people more when they choose to spend less when comprising on quality.

[VectraMan]

Is one leg shorter than the other?

[mudskipper]

Is one leg shorter than the other?

That's not ms#5. But his rash looked like that. He has long legs.

[RSoles]

My Granny used to sit too close to her coal fire, she had the same toasted skin down one side of her leg.

Hold on, I'm sitting next to my logburner......