Mouse or touchpad?

Question

Iron

What are you using and why? Or in what cases.

Answer 1

I don't play on the computer and I don't draw. I only use the touchpad. On macbooks (and I have Air) it's just awesome. I have not seen anything better on other laptops. When I bought my first Macbook many years ago, I immediately bought a mouse as well. In the end, I didn't even unpack it. I don't need a mouse. Also, you constantly have to use a variety of laptops (not from Apple) and you have to use only a mouse with them. Because the touchpads are terrible.

Answer 2

Mouse Only

Answer 3

After buying a laptop (Dell inspiron 7xxx) with a large touchpad, I forgot about the mouse as such.
By the way, this was facilitated by Unity in all the so unloved ubunts - there is no need to pull the cursor in all directions in guis, and the work of multi-touch is excellent.
True, I note that the entire HL series went through the touchpad without much discomfort.

Answer 4

Trackball. For everything.

Answer 5

With large monitors - a mouse (clitoris to wind around 3200x1200 for a long time) + clitoris, on laptops - thinkpad's clitoris.
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Answer 6

• On the old beech Compaq Armada there was an analogue of the “clitoris” - PointStick, and I had a callus on my finger from it, because it was tight and rough. But I mainly used it (the mouse was lying nearby), since it was not necessary to move my processes back and forth. When the laptop was bent, I was very saddened by the lack of a stick in budget models.
• Then there was the RoverBook and a surprisingly good touchpad - with it the mouse was touched a little more often than never.
• Then there was (and still is) a Quanta UW3 netbook: the touchpad is small and periodically freezes in hardware. When he was with Windows, in principle, he could only use it with a mouse, then he installed Arch with i3 - and the manipulator is very rarely needed.
• Now, with the Samsung 300e5a beech, I use a heavy logitech only when I need to do something from small printing or draw parallelepipeds in SketchUp, and I manage the rest with hotkeys and its healthy (just like on macbooks) and a very good touchpad (with drivers, however, you have to chemistry ).
• At work (enikeyism) - "just a mouse", but I want something like a ThinkPad Keyboard with TrackPoint