Got N55SF (2670QM/8G/750G/FHD).

Just got freak glitch:
Touchpad is not working properly. Left click and tapping do not work, external mouse works fine though.
Have tried everything (except full reinstall).

The Synaptics device settings look fine (tried them all and now back to 'default settings', touchpad can sense the left button and tapping (pressure graph etc. so the device itself seems not to be broken), but it just does not work for programs. However, if I do configure the touchpad to be 'left handed', then tapping works fine as does the 'left click' (which is actually right click for the left handed configuration).

Must be some windows/asus bloatware glitch, but how to fix it?!

Any help and hints are appreciated!

P.S. Has anyone managed to install TurboGear or other ASUS 'overclocking' utilities? It did not work right out of the box for me, some .dll missing and I'm a bit sceptical if turbogear works at all for i7 models.

Could use more mhz for both GT555M and especially the CPU.

And has anyone any idea would 8G memory chips work in this laptop for total 16G? Cost still like hell, but hoping they come down in the near future.

By running linux(es) on virtual machine(s) your could get the
best out of both worlds, i.e. https://www.virtualbox.org/

...or by running windows on top of linux virtual machine.

You can run it from different partition, but the default option is that it
makes a virtual filesystem (one large file on default windows partion
so it is extremely easy setup).

There is plenty of cpu for that on asus laptops, only get's a little more memory
intensive, but memory is cheap and you can start with 4G easily.