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  2. Touchpad - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Pointing stick - Wikipedia

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    IBM sold a mouse with a pointing stick in the location where a scroll wheel is common now. A pointing stick on a mid-1990s-era Toshiba laptop. The two buttons below the keyboard act as a computer mouse: the top button is used for left-clicking while the bottom button is used for right-clicking.

  4. Pointing device - Wikipedia

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    A computer mouse Touchpad and a pointing stick on an IBM notebook Trackpoint An elder 3D mouse 3D pointing device. A pointing device is a human interface device that allows a user to input spatial (i.e., continuous and multi-dimensional) data to a computer.

  5. Laptop - Wikipedia

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    A laptop computer or notebook computer, also known as a laptop or notebook, is a small, portable personal computer (PC). Laptops typically have a clamshell form factor with a flat-panel screen on the inside of the upper lid and an alphanumeric keyboard and pointing device on the inside of the lower lid.

  6. Input device - Wikipedia

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    A pointing device allows a user to input spatial data to a computer. It is commonly used as a simple and intuitive way to select items on a computer screen on a graphical user interface (GUI), either by moving a mouse pointer, or, in the case of a touch screen, by physically touching the item on screen. Common pointing devices include mice ...

  7. Dell XPS - Wikipedia

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    The Dell XPS 14 (9440) was released in early 2024 and is a 14.5" laptop between the Dell XPS 13 and the XPS 16. It has thinner bezels, a seamless touchpad, and edge-to-edge keyboard with a touch function row, it offers two 14.5" display options, 1920x1200 LCD, or 3200x2000 OLED display, both at a refresh rate of 120Hz.

  8. Pointing device gesture - Wikipedia

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    The mouse gesture for "back" in Opera – the user holds down the right mouse button, moves the mouse left, and releases the right mouse button.. In computing, a pointing device gesture or mouse gesture (or simply gesture) is a way of combining pointing device or finger movements and clicks that the software recognizes as a specific computer event and responds to accordingly.

  9. Wikipedia:Reference desk/Computing - Wikipedia

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    For users who always use a mouse, the touchpad is a complication. Robert McClenon 19:06, 15 December 2024 (UTC) I now have a possibly useless question. The documentation referred to an option that disables the touchpad when there is a mouse, but the only option that I found in the settings is the option that always disables the touchpad.