The DPI is really a software problem. More DPI should only be better except for battery use.
IMO Touchpads/clickpads on those are a deal breaker. They are so bad that it is almost impossible to be nearly as productive as with a mouse.
On the other hand, Apple really got the clickpad right.
Re:New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft
by jakub_g on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @02:44AM
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T450 has 130dpi, T550 has 140dpi. It is small but noticeable difference.
It is a software problem that for pragmatic reasons I don't want to get into. Good luck setting non-integer scaling on current operating systems (like 1.25 or 1.50). It's either not supported, or the effect is blurry. It's a different story for retina screens, you set scaling to 2.00 and you're fine. But I was talking about non-retina.
Re:New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft
by bluecalm on Tuesday October 06, 2015 @07:59PM
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I am surprsied reading those comments. A touchpad on my x250 is fantastic and very customizable. I hate touchpads in general but after customizing it to be very sensitive and proper dead zones (to avoid clicking on accident in areas I often put a part of my hands) even started to like it.
I customized to very low sensitivity and I use only for clicking these days as trackpoint is just much better an interface.
Re:New Windows 10 Devices From Microsoft
by TurboHaskal on Wednesday October 07, 2015 @09:41AM
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Lenovo should simply stop shipping touchpads on their X series.
Anyone that doesn't like the trackpoint can buy a MacBook clone instead.
I took SSD, 16gb ram, no DVD, 2 cores (quad core was very expensive) and 2 batteries which makes it very light, yet with proper screen size; very fast and the battery lifetime is amazing (10-20h)
Only thing I don't like is touchpad, but I usually disable it and use track point. I preferred touchpad in my old asus laptop which was lower than keyboard level hence one would rarely click it by accident.
I chose T450 over T440 since in ..50 series Lenovo readded physical buttons over the touchpad (in ..30 and ..40 they were replaced with touch zones on the touchpad and long time Thinkpad users were really furious about that on forums)