FELLOWES 99841 Internet Glidepoint Touchpad

by Fellowes

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B00004Z7A5
• Item model number: 99841
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #75 in Electronics > Computers & Add-Ons > Computer Accessories > Keyboards, Mice & Input Devices > Touch Pads
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 4, 1999

Product Description

Latest generation design requires no pressure to point and select - just move your finger and tap. Patented Glidepoint® Gesture technology allows users to program their own personal gestures to open documents, start applications or accomplish just about any other task on a PC that typically requires multiple keystrokes.

Customer Reviews

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Works as Advertised, June 4, 2004

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Sauropod (Tucson, AZ) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: FELLOWES 99841 Internet Glidepoint Touchpad (Personal Computers)

It is possible to download a Windows XP driver for this device. However, you really don't need one. I tried the touchpad with the XP driver and without, and found that the pre-installed generic XP driver provided smoother cursor motion. Of course, if you want all the special Glidepoint features, you need the XP driver from the Fellowes Web site, but I found the Glidepoint features to be more annoying than helpful, and the cursor motion became somewhat unpredictable. I recommend just hooking this device up to your Windows XP machine and letting the pre-installed XP (Home Edition) driver do the work. If you do, you'll find that this touchpad functions exceptionally well, and is a great value for the money - much better than those combo keyboard-touchpad devices, which are harder to use and less ergonomically satisfying.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good for Win 9x, but not for Win XP, November 15, 2002

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This review is from: FELLOWES 99841 Internet Glidepoint Touchpad (Personal Computers)

If you have Windows 95 or Windows 98 this is a good input device to use. It has several nice features:

1. user defined gestures for keyboard shortcuts
2. better, smoother scrolling than a mouse
3. easier to keep clean
4. can change the text size of a web page without accessing the menu
5. doesn't care if you're right or left handed
6. works on any surface that it will fit on, self contained
7. more features than I have listed
8. easy to use

To me it's well worth the price.

But if you have Windows XP do not buy it. There are no drivers for Windows XP as of yet, without the drivers it acts like a basic mouse.

I don't know about any other OS and compatibility.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wowsers Uncle Gadget!, February 7, 2004

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JLS RN "oakborn" (MO USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: FELLOWES 99841 Internet Glidepoint Touchpad (Personal Computers)

I have long been a fan of glidepoint technology, having been using an Alps touchpad for nearly 6 years that is FINALLY dying in the time that I would have gone through numerous mice. And ALPS wasn't supporting my old baby any longer, so I was out of luck.

I just got this Fellowes Touchpad in the mail yesterday and I am already a VERY happy camper. I love the versatility of it and the programmable features, such as "gestures" which allows you to set up a symbol recognition system that you create similar to the Graffiti alphabet on Palm OS handhelds. There are also buttons for your default web browser and e-mail programs. Plus one other button for whatever you want it to be.

In addition, there are scroll and zoom bars on the right and bottom sides of the pad which make web surfing very nice indeed. The pad also has a zoom feature on the left side, and back/forward along the top. The top right corner is blue and works like your right mouse button.

You also have 2 conventional buttons for right and left just below the touchpad area.

I was worried that it would not be compatible with my Win XP, but I went to the Fellowes site and they have a compatible (just not M-soft stamp-of-approvaled) driver that works fine without any glitches with the touchpad.