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See, it's never been clear to me how anyone would willingly work with a touchpad. My first laptop had one and I used with a mouse whenever I could, even in uni lecture halls where there wasn't really much space.

Only when I got my first thinkpad I could finally work without a mouse and haven't looked back since.

And yes, the mac ones are a bit better than the others, but I still don't like them. At all.

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I'd have give a trackpoint on the HP Elitebook I was given to work with by one customer if only there was a way to scroll with it.

Not sure if that's possible on a Thinkpad but there was no obvious way on the HP running Ubuntu to do the equivalent of two finger touchpad scrolling.

I dunno. Most of the windows laptops I've used all had mediocre touchpads, so if I was going to do some serious amount of work on them, always used the mouse. But for my MBPs, the thought never even occurs to me, the touchpad does the job quite well.

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