Alps Vs Synaptics

I would like to start off by saying I have had over 200 Dell laptops, dating all the way back to the Latitude XPi-CD, and the Inspiron 3000 models. I used to resell them when there was still a profit to be made in the portable computer market. I have personally owned many Inspirons, and Latitudes myself, and the Alps touchpad is completely inferior in every way, shape, and form in contrast to the Synaptics pad. If you have an Alps pad, and do not like it, the only way to make it even close to responsive is to completely uninstall the Alps Touchpad driver, and use the built in Windows mouse driver, although, you will lose the scroll ability, but, it will give you some response in return. I will never purchase another notebook with the Alps pad in it. I just purchased 2 Sony VAIOs in hopes I could deal with the Alps pad, but no dice, they are both going back to the retailer. OEMs may be able to get ALPS cheaper, but they should not ever use those pads in my honest opinion. If an Alps touchpad is your first experience with a portable computer, you may not ever know the difference, but coming from someone that has owned many laptop computers, one would never use an Alps pad after using a Synaptics, for both software and harware reasons. Just my .02 cents. I truly wish the engineering dept of DELL Computer find these threads, and choose not to use the Alps product for customer preference reasons, instead of budget.