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Closeup of a touchpad on an Acer CB5-311 laptop Closeup of a touchpad on a MacBook 2015 laptop. A touchpad or trackpad is a type of pointing device.Its largest component is a tactile sensor: an electronic device with a flat surface, that detects the motion and position of a user's fingers, and translates them to 2D motion, to control a pointer in a graphical user interface on a computer screen.
Pointing sticks were the dominant pointing device for laptops before the advent of the touchpad. During later years, they faced a decline in popularity as most laptop-producing brands switched to touchpads, although as of 2021, some manufacturers like Lenovo still produce laptops with pointing sticks.
Beginning with Toshiba's T1800 laptop in 1992, Toshiba began introducing brand names to go alongside certain T-series models (in the T1800's case, Satellite). [4] This practice continued until June 1995, when Toshiba's computer division imposed a nomenclature reset which removed the T prefix and dictated that all succeeding models have a brand ...
The Satellite 5205-S703 was the first laptop with built-in DVD-R/RW drive and cost $2,699. [2] Sharp Corporation obtained 80.1% of Toshiba's computer subsidiary in October 2018. In April 2019, Sharp renamed the subsidiary Dynabook Inc. [3] In 2020, Toshiba sold their remaining shares to Sharp. Sharp resurrected the Satellite Pro series that year.
A wireless keyboard is a computer keyboard that allows the user to communicate with computers, tablets, or laptops with the help of radio frequency (RF), such as WiFi and Bluetooth or with infrared (IR) technology. Wireless keyboards in the current market are commonly accompanied by a wireless mouse.
Touchpad with 2-buttons below, or touchpad with buttons on each side. The latter may make it hard with some operations needing simultaneous presses. Battery capacity and operating time. Weight and size. The original concept was below 1 kg but some manufacturers tend toward 2 kg (4.4 lb).
A stack of Satellite Pro 470CDTs. Toshiba Information Systems introduced the Satellite Pro 400 series in June 1995, starting with the 400CDT and 400CS models. [1] This was a month after they had announced the Portégé 610CT, the first subnotebook with a Pentium processor, [2] and almost a full year after they had announced the T4900CT, the first notebook-sized laptop with a Pentium processor. [3]
PS/2 did not typically support plug-and-play, which means that connecting a PS/2 keyboard or mouse with the computer powered on does not always work and may pose a hazard to the computer's motherboard. Likewise, the PS/2 standard did not support the HID protocol. The USB human interface device class describes a USB HID.