Hi,

this is my first post, so first of all hello to all fellow forum users.

After having used only ThinkPads for almost 20 years, I now switched to a Dell Precision 7510 since approx. 2 months. In general this is a wonderful machine, but I'm very unhappy with the pointstick. The ThinkPads' pointsticks always worked very well for me, with high precision that allowed to control even the smallest pointer movements with ease.

The Dell's pontstick in comparison does not work well for me. Sometimes I have to apply a high force to make it move at all. Sometimes when I try to make small or slow movements the pointer gets "stuck", e.g. it stops in the middle of the movement and then it moves on.

Is it possible that I have a bad exemplar, or do others confirm that the Dell pointsticks don't work as well as the ThinkPad pointsticks in general?

Also the form of the pointstick is not optimal for me. With the relatively high force that I have to use sometimes I slip of the stick and push one of the keys around it. Are there different forms of pointsticks available from Dell as accessory?