Brian([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 01:42:41PM -0700: [snip] > > Oh how I loathe the eraserhead pointer thing. Had to give a > presentation at work on a laptop with that thing, having never used one, > well I was reminded why I never used one. >
I never liked them either, but now I have a laptop provided by my employer which has both the eraserhead, and a touch pad directly in front of the space bar. I am as surprised as anyone to say that I much prefer the eraserhead pointer. Aside from the fact that I barely have to move my hand to search for the pointer, there is also the fact that with the touch pad, the mouse jumps around more than I like. It most annoyingly jumps while I'm typing and the base of my thumb, or the heel of my hand touches the pad. Of course the best pointing device I have seen so far are those Kensington trackballs. The ones that have the enormous ball in a square base. I bought one for about $19 five years ago. Now I can only find them listed for $99. Wade Curry syntaxman -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
