I'm new to laptops.Slowly getting used to the integral mouse, but haven't yet managed to succeed in dragging items to a specific place - they get halfway there and then go back to where they started from. There must be a technique I haven't mastered, I'd be grateful for advice.
You have to treat it like a normal mouse, to drag something click on it and keep you finger down and drag with your other finger on the pad, it gets easier with practice but I never use the laptop mouse, just get a proper USB mouse. You may have to increase the pointer sensitivity of you are running out of pad before your reach the target.
Difficult to use a mouse when you are balancing the laptop on your knee on the bus, though - or anywhere else, so it is good to be able to properly the laptop's trackpad.
I do use a wireless mouse when I'm at home sat at a table or desk, though.