Synaptic Touchpad

Did you know most, if not all, (PC) laptop on the market with a Touchpad has the ability to launch program, scroll, and manipulate windows like minimize and maximize? It’s not really a Touchpad hack per se because it actually comes with your laptop. This is true because most laptop these days uses a Synaptics Touchpad. Even if your laptop doesn’t have those special scroller marking, your laptop’s Touchpad can still scroll! On top of that you can also play the drum, theremin and more on your Touchpad. All this is just hidden under the control panel.

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UPDATE: After about a year of use, the keyboard paint on the M-6827 starts wearing off. Both the silver and the letters. The most common buttons, like enter, spacebar, s, e and shift are worn off to the extent that the letters are not visible any more. So if you hate cosmetic defect, here’s one.

A couple of days ago there was this awesome deal on the Gateway M-6827 laptop. It was sold for $549 instead of the regular price of $699 (at Office Depot).  If you haven’t seen the pattern in most of the things I reviewed, it’s the fact that I like good deals. So what makes this laptop awesome? Let’s start with the spec (I promise you, it gets way more interesting):

• 15.4″-diagonal widescreen WXGA (1280 x 800) UltraBright™ LCD screen
• Intel Core 2 Duo processor T5750 operating at 2.0GHz 2MB L2 cach
• 3GB of PC2-5300 DDR2 SDRAM memory (2GB + 1GB)
• 160GB 5400-rpm Serial ATA (SATA) hard drive
• Multiformat DVD drive with Double Layer support (reads/writes DVD±R/RW, DVD-RAM, DVD±R Double Layer, CD-R/RW); supports disc labeling on Labelflash media
• Intel Pro/Wireless 3945ABG (802.11a/b/g) wireless LAN
• Integrated 1.3-megapixel webcam, for live video chat and still photos
• 5-in-1 memory card reader: reads SD, MMC, xD, Memory Stick, Memory Stick Pro
• Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 with up to 384MB shared memory

And on top of that, it has a pretty slick and new design. Which leads me to wonder why it was so cheap.

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