Precision 7560 Keyboard and Touchpad Almost Unusable

As I suspected before purchase, the keyboard and touchpad design on the 7560 and others is appalling if you are used to something like an older Latitude. Because of the numeric pad all keys are too narrow, poorly postioned, or dedicated keys non-existent.

The numeric pad is a total waste of time and interferes with all the useful keys. The first thing I did was to accidentatly hit the power key and switch off the machine instead of finding delete which is usually there.

I may need to find a way to disable/cover this up as I am still using my other Latitudes with sensible keyboards most of the time. There be a way to reconfigure some of the function keys as there is an option in the Bios.

The touchpad is equally useless as there is no proper configuration for it, just the useless Microsoft generic junk.

They seem to assume that everyone will use phone type gestures for everything, but this does not make sense to me on what is supposed to be a workstation

On my newer Latitude I found I could use one of the old Dell Synaptics utilities from an older machine and |I have been using this for years now without any problems.

I will see if I can find something like this for the 7560, but I have not been able to find the touchpad manufacturer yet.

Does anyone know who makes it?

Apart from these issues and the fact that I will have to spend another week or two hacking windows to control all Microsoft's spyware the machine looks promising. The i7 seems blisteringly fast even with just the intel graphics and I haven't added my extra ram yet.