[jrendel]

Originally Posted by Jason Dunn

I will hopefully be shooting the video today, and publishing it before the end of the week.

Sounds great, looking forward to seeing how this one holds up.

Originally Posted by Jason Dunn

The track pad on the dm3 is one of the worst I've ever used. I'm not at all impressed with it - sometimes it simply stops working. Complete disaster - frankly, it almost kills the whole product.

That was my thought as well. For such a nice looking product, the track pad felt really bad. Especially since when I tried it, there was an HP Envy on display right next to it, which had a great track pad. Sometimes I wonder what manufacturers I thinking when they design these things....

[jrendel]

Originally Posted by Jason Dunn

I will hopefully be shooting the video today, and publishing it before the end of the week.

Sounds great, looking forward to seeing how this one holds up.

Originally Posted by Jason Dunn

The track pad on the dm3 is one of the worst I've ever used. I'm not at all impressed with it - sometimes it simply stops working. Complete disaster - frankly, it almost kills the whole product.

That was my thought as well. For such a nice looking product, the track pad felt really bad. Especially since when I tried it, there was an HP Envy on display right next to it, which had a great track pad. Sometimes I wonder what manufacturers I thinking when they design these things....

[randalllewis]

You guys seem to have found the flaw in the dm3, but it is an easy fix. There is a driver problem with the track pad-- in addition to the question of the feel and/or apperance. The track pad behaves badly or doesn't work at all when the computer comes out of sleep. The solution is to turn off the multi-touch feature, or use hibernation rather than sleep.

A driver update is promised but that won't fix the track pad if you hate how it looks or feels.

I just like to be able to turn track pads off because I nearly always use a notebook mouse instead.

[Jason Dunn]

Originally Posted by randalllewis

The solution is to turn off the multi-touch feature, or use hibernation rather than sleep...I just like to be able to turn track pads off because I nearly always use a notebook mouse instead.

Indeed, those might work around the issue, but HP shouldn't have released a product that shipped with a shoddy driver, requires the buyer to disable multi-touch, or one that requires the user use an external mouse. HP really screwed up with this part of the product.