Thinkpads Forum

Does the W510 and W701s come with Synaptics multi-touch touchpad that works in Windows 7? I believe some other Lenovo models have this, such as a new netbook.

If it can do all of this, then I'd say it's as good as the multi-touch pad found on Apple Macbook Pros and iPhone.
http://www.synaptics.com/solutions/tech ... s/touchpad

As a content producture of business documents using mostly Microsoft Office and business oriented graphics, I can see how those finger gestures (listed on that webpage at Synaptics) could really be useful if indeed they are available and enabled in any Windows application, particularly what is called business productivity software.

• Two-Finger Scrolling and Two-Finger Reverse: Horizontal and vertical scrolling through long Word and Excel documents.
• Two-Finger Rotate: I can't see much use for document-centric applications.
• Two-Finger Pinch Zoom: Flicks through preview of images.
• Three-Finger Flick: Page to page navigation in a PDF, Word or Powerpoint document.
• Three-Finger Down: Quick launch common apps.
• (One-Finger) Linear Scrolling: Seems similar to Two-Finger Scrolling. Nice alternative to using a mouse on the scrollbars.
• ChiralScrollTM: Now here is something that looks really really useful for quickly browsing through very long documents if you want a review or looking for something. Sort of a super-Linear Scrolling.
• MomentumTM: This appears to be what is commonly called kinetic scrolling in the Apple world. When you flick down a list of objects in an iPhone or in the new MacBook Pros announced this week, it scrolls and slows down gradully. I can see this being useful with Windows Explorer or in a browser.

The bottom line is nothing is as good as the TouchPad on a new MacBook Pro. It's the combination of a huge surface and excellent software that gives it such great functionality.

That said, I only use it because there is no TrackPoint on my new MBP. It's just a fun machine anyway for personal use, and even at that not my number one favorite, which is my ThinkPad T60.

I'm a died in the wool ThinkPad TrackPoint lover. And you'll notice I said ThinkPad, not HP or any of the others I've had or have. No one has the TrackPoint refined like we have on the ThinkPad.

Cheers...