I have used a laptop with the little joystick mouse for years.
Pros: You can leave your hands on the keyboard.
You can put a couple different kinds of covers on them (soft, hard
grippy, etc.)
Cons: The Toshiba laptops that I have been using seem to have a problem
with drift after a while.
Prolonged use will cause pain in your hand/finger.
I used to use a Dell that had a little trackball. I liked it, but of
course it did not hold up as well (exposed moving parts).
I just had the opportunity to go with either a new Dell (touchpad) or a
new Toshiba (joystick). After trying both I decided to stick with the
Toshiba in spite of the above. I usually just attach an external mouse
when traveling, and a *really fantastic* keyboard and mouse when I am at
work.
The keyboard company is called Kinesis. I can recommed them very
highly. They have a number of keyboards, I use the one called 'The
Essential'.
(The one on the left at http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/).
Rich
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Bill Freeman wrote:
>
> I've grown to hate the touch pad mouse on my laptop because of
> the way that my thumb tends to inadvertently brush it while I'm
> typing, leaving me typing at the wrong spot in the text, or even at
> the wrong window.
>
> Meanwhile my boss is asking me for laptop recommendations.
> I'm tempted to tell him to avoid the touch pad mice ones. Today that
> seems to leave the force joystick nub between the "G" and "H" keys (I
> believe). But I have no first hand experience with those. My
> daughter doesn't like them, claiming, among other things, that they
> break easily (though she has never owned one either).
>
> I'd be interested to hear war stories from folks who have
> actually owned or at least extensively used such a beast.
>
> TIA, Bill
>
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