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Why else do they find the need to put their track-pads off-center toward the left side of the computer?


Simple. The track-pad has to be centered on the letter "B" -- the middle of the QWERTY keyboard. Otherwise it gets set off by accident whilst typing normally.

I mistakenly purchased a notebook, once, with a pretty "centered" (on the notebook, not the letter "B") touchpad, and had to unload it within a few weeks again because it was just unusable.

Cheers