Yoga 3 Pro Touchpad "Momentum" or "Inertia"

The Yoga 3 Pro appears to use a Synaptics touchpad driver. I have used a Dell at work and an HP at home both using Synaptics touchpads as well as my wife's Toshiba Satellite. The device drivers for these offered "Momentum" which, once you get used to, you can't live without. Momentum allows you to flick your finger a little in a direction and the mouse cursor will continue in that direction across the screen until you touch the touchpad again which "catches" or stops the cursor movement and you can resume moving it to its final destination. The Lenovo Yoga 3 "Synaptics" touchpad driver does not offer this option in its settings. Does anyone know of updated drivers that will provide this capability?
I have looked a little deeper (into the registry) of the other computers and have found some settings that seem to enable it in the current driver (Synaptics 18.0.7.85) - MomentumMotion (setting to 1 enables it) as well as MomentumMotionFriction. No wonder it is disabled by default and no setting in the GUI to turn it on - it is very erratic and barely works (sometimes works a little if you make a very long pass across the touchpad and not too quickly before letting go). It is very unusable as it stands in this driver.
If anyone has any information on how to enable this feature properly through a proper driver that works, please let me know. This one feature really makes or breaks using a touch pad all day without getting so "tired" in the hands, fingers, and wrist. Even though it is a touch screen, it is just awkward to poke at the screen when in laptop mode with such a nice and light laptop

I will be doing a video review on my experience soon but here are some points I can tell you already -
1) It is a great travelling companion, movies, videos, songs, small gaming is all perfect.
2) Battery life is really nice, I watched 3.5 hour long Lord of the rings and still had about 60% left
3) Pretty light and rotates 360 degrees, very comfortable to use in any and every mode.
4) Does not get hot, remains cool.
5) Exquisite looks especially the Bright orange color, which is my fav.
6) Screen is beautiful and everything is crisp (I use it at 1080p)
7) Some apps are very useful like ShareIt, transfer data from android, iphone etc in seconds over a wifi network.
8) Performance is good for browsing as well.
9) Boots in 3-5 seconds
10) Keyoard is backlit and very nice but shallow, trackpad is an absolute delight.
2 finger taps, 2 finger swipes, 3 finger swipes, 2 finger zoom, 2 finger scrolling of pages, everything is smooth and responsive.
11) Sound quality is awesome as well, very loud and clear. Enough bass to provide enjoyable experience.
What you should not expect -
1) Heavy graphics intensive tasks.
2) Lags a bit on some web pages scrolling (NOT noticeable)
3) Some software which are useless and can be uninstalled.
I typed this whole post on my Yoga 3 Pro and it is a great for me to type on this beauty.
Going to watch a movie now.
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