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and (my favorite) an external rollerball for my first laptop.

This solution being second only to the pop out mouse of the HP Omnibook 600 (and previous?) series. Too bad they are only 486. Doesn't stop me from owning... two.

Trackpads can be both good and bad. They take up too much room, hurting the sub-notebook form factor whose case stops just past the space bar. And working out the right driver settings for sensitivity and ignoring the palms of your hand takes time. But they are faster (for me) than the tracksticks.

However, continued respects go to Lenovo for maintaining the Thinkpad quality. I've never had one fall apart like a Sony, Dell, or Gateway, and the Thinkpads have always had interesting features (like the lift up keyboard of the 760XD or the butterfly keyboard of the old 486).
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FireFox31
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