Touch pads are not always working well. It is boring when the coursor is not working well. If it does not follow your finger while you are touching the screen, what should you do? First try to adjust the speed of the coursor according to your own speed of moving your finger. You can do it by following the steps: Windows - Mouse Properties in Control Panel –choosing Pointer options. Here you can adjust the speed of the pointer, so to can work easily and without annoying delay.
If this does not work and the coursor is still moving wildly from displays one side to its other side and if you feel like the sensibility of the display is zero and if you cannot choose icons no matter of the number of clicking, you probably have problem not with the touch pad itself but with the drivers.
Of course no one says it is compulsory to use the touch pad. If you cannot get used to use it, just buy a mouse and use it instead of the touch pad. Easy!
If you want to save the problems with the touch pad, take your time while buying one. Most of the producers set great stone of the designer outlook of the notebooks. They produce touch pads with mirror surfaces, which look great and really fashionable. But they are not that easy and comfortable to be used. And no one needs just fashionable laptop. Everyone wants a laptop to make good work.
From importance is the position of the touch pad as well. It is advisable the touch pad to be just under the letter G, B, H of the keyboard even when we are talking for configuration with numerical keyboard. Do not forget the keys attached to the touch pad. It is good idea those keys to be one level under the level of the touch pad, at first hand under it. If the keys are from one of the sides of the touch pad or are sidelong it can be not that easy for the usage of the touch pad. Be sure you can do easy.
The touch pads are more important when it is up to the netbooks, because of the sizes of the netbooks. Try the touch pad and the keys of the netbook and if they are according to your understanding of measure.
And my advice to you is first to try the touch pad and to see if it is comfortable and easy to use. If it is, you can buy the laptop of the netbook. If on the other hand you do not feel free in the usage of the laptop or netbook because of the touch pad, just try to find another model with easier to use touch pad.