Microsoft Precision Touchpad, not very precise

Anonymous
2015-03-02T22:40:42+00:00

I recently purchased a laptop from Microsoft (2015 Dell XPS 13") that uses the Microsoft Precision Touchpad. 

There are a few issues I'm having with this touchpad that I've never noticed with other laptops and I'm wondering if anyone else is experiencing these or if there are any fixes. 

  1. There is a noticeable delay when trying to make slow light movements. My finger can move several millimeters before the cursor responds. It may not sound like much, but if you're trying to make subtle movements in photoshop, or select a specific character anywhere it's very noticeable and difficult to use. 
  2. The majority of the time when I lift my finger the cursor will jump several pixels, often moving away from the object I'm trying to target. 
  3. If you use any browser besides IE, two finger scrolling is very choppy and has a similar delay that's experienced in the first issue. 

There are a few other minor annoyances, like poor palm detection and using two hands (one to move the cursor and one to click with) but the issues above are the biggest annoyances, ordered by most annoying to least. 

If anyone has any ways to fix these issues or install different drivers, I'd love to hear about them.

Thanks!

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  1. Anonymous
    2017-03-18T02:00:27+00:00

    On chrome, if you go to chrome://flags/ and disable smooth scrolling, it will actually get smoother.

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  2. Anonymous
    2016-08-11T02:11:06+00:00

    So has anyone seen any improvement in the Windows 10 Anniversary update?

    It replaced my Synaptics driver so I'm about to reinstall....

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  3. Anonymous
    2016-07-20T23:24:08+00:00

    "not very precise" is an understatement, it's literally the least precise, worst touchpad I've ever used in my entire life.

    I just bought a new 1,000$+ Dell Inspiron 7559 laptop and it's having this same issue, it says it has a precision touchpad.

    I tried installing every random driver I could find but I couldn't fix it.

    So, everyone has this problem? How are people giving these touchpads passing reviews? It's unbelievably terrible

    I guess I'll just have to use a mouse until this is maybe fixed in a few years? :(

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  4. Anonymous
    2016-01-17T10:08:22+00:00

    Yeah I know what you mean. Almost a perfect contender to the macbook pro and they blow it by using the worst touchpad drivers they could.

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  5. Anonymous
    2016-01-17T03:06:43+00:00

    I totally returned my Dell 13" 9350 for a full refund. What a waste of an otherwise PERFECT laptop. So mad at MS and Dell, maybe 2 years from now this will be fixed. Have to keep my 2008 Dell till then.

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