In order to make a laptop usable, you need to disable the touchpad while typing. Your typing hands hover over the touchpad, and the damn pad sees light finger brushes as solid mouse clicks. Each time that happens, bad things happen to your text, random cursor moves, weird escape sequences inserted in your text, or whole pages of text just gone. I use a plain jane USB mouse, the kind with real mechanical buttons that click when pressed. So I have no need of the touch pad, in fact it messes up my typing.
So, off to Windows 8 configuration land. Stroke your finger from the right hand screen edge toward screen center, and a mystery menu pops up. Click on "Settings" (bottom gear wheel icon). Click on "Control Panel". Sort thru the hundred or so icons in ControlPanel and click on "Mouse". Inside the "Mouse" program, click on "Touchpad" tab. Check "Disable internal pointing device when USB mouse is present".
Make a record of how you did this. Windows 8 will occasionally clear the checkmark and your typing goes to pieces again. When that happens, repeat the whole procedure, and the problem will go away again, at least until Windows 8 decides to liven up your life.
It ought to be a felony to release software this flaky, but heh, if you are Micro$oft, anything goes.
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