alt Hacker NewsThe author didn't list real mouse buttons as a benefit, and I see from the image it has them. I've been buying refurbished Dell business class laptops for a decade, the last one I bought, a Dell Latitude 7420, doesn't have them, which is turning out to be a big problem. It means that cut-n-paste went way up in hassle and inaccuracy. Why did laptop vendors quit putting in mouse buttons? Does the average Windows user only left click on things? Does any laptop come with mouse buttons these days?
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Even my very light Fujitsu U939 has two real mouse buttons. On the other side, I allways have a small mouse or a trackball with me. The cursor buttons are also in full size and he has also 2 seperate PgUp and PgDown buttons. I have no idea how people can work on a notebook without these buttons.
Two-finger tap acts as the right-click. Also clicking and holding the bottom-right corner.
But I don’t pretend that any of these gestures make trackpads usable.
ThinkPads seem to still have physical buttons for clicking:
https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpadt/th...
The HP Fury 16 has buttons below the touchpad. Maybe there are no other new laptops with buttons in that position.
The ThinkPads have them below the spacebar. They are conveniently placed if one uses the little red stick, not so much for the touchpad.
I thought i was crazy looking for mouse buttons in laptops, seems like the cool thing to do is leave them out.
IMO, Dell Latitudes stopped being business-quality and started being consumer-quality _many_ years ago. Crap keyboards, crap touchpad, cheap painted plastic case, etc. You need to step up to at least the Precision line to get anything decent.
Although, Dell have refreshed all of their product lines lately, so even this is outdated advice. Looking through their current lineup and I don't see _any_ with real physical touchpad buttons or pointer sticks, unfortunately.