In my opinion, they're way better than touchpads. For any serious work I use a full size wireless mouse, but I'm comfortable on a trackpoint, and continuously

In my opinion, they're way better than touchpads. For any serious work I use a full size wireless mouse, but I'm comfortable on a trackpoint, and continuously frustrated using a touchpad. It's important to use the hard grippy eraser head and not the squishy cup head if accuracy is important. I'm stuck using a Macbook Pro at the moment, but I would love to have modern components in my old Thinkpad T400, or even better, the 600E I had in college.