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Honestly, I disagree with your last point. There may be some "pros" who prefer the clitmouse but I consider myself a "pro user" in that I use my laptop(s) ever

by na85 7y ago

Honestly, I disagree with your last point. There may be some "pros" who prefer the clitmouse but I consider myself a "pro user" in that I use my laptop(s) every day for work and for personal stuff, and I greatly greatly prefer a quality trackpad. Apple in particular ships laptops with excellent trackpads. If all you've used is the garbage trackpads that get shipped with most Dell or Lenovo laptops, then sure I can see why a clitmouse would be preferrable, but having used them all I can say that after using my macbook's trackpad I have zero desire to go back to the pointer, and mine is the comically-large one on the touchbar macbook pro. It's enormous, but even so I've never had a spurious click or mouse-movement with this machine, and that's not hyperbole. If I need reliable pointing for a particular workflow beyond what a trackpad can deliver, I have a bluetooth mouse. Or a desktop computer with a corded mouse. The trackpoint/clitmouse pales in comparison.

nine_k 7y ago
I wasn't clear enough. I don't mean to say that the trackpoint is overwhelmingly preferred by pros, and other forms of coordinate input (trackpads, trackballs, mice, etc) are not. If anything, pros is likely the group with most diverse and special preferences. I tried to say that people who prefer trackpoint are mostly pros, not newcomers.
NikolaNovak 7y ago
There certainly are many pros of various kinds who prefer the trackpad; in fact, I would say that in any given group (however we define "pros" and "amaterus" when it comes to laptops:), most people will prefer trackpad. But I am to this day convinced it's simply the learning curve - until the day I see a video or a person using trackpad that doesn't make me cringe in the same way that a two-finger key-hunter does. I can understand that this seems patronizing, I struggle to put it in a way that doesn't seem personal, but for years I have witnessed colleagues who claim to be excellent with trackpad, they love it, it's great... and then they take 3-5 times longer to get things done as they go swipe... swipe... swipe oh there I am at the other end of the screen... swipe... swipe... oh there's the button:-/
- toxik 7y ago
  Would these people really do better with a trackpoint? It doesn’t sound like learning issues, but ability issues.

by na85 7y ago

nine_k 7y ago

I wasn't clear enough. I don't mean to say that the trackpoint is overwhelmingly preferred by pros, and other forms of coordinate input (trackpads, trackballs, mice, etc) are not. If anything, pros is likely the group with most diverse and special preferences. I tried to say that people who prefer trackpoint are mostly pros, not newcomers.

NikolaNovak 7y ago

There certainly are many pros of various kinds who prefer the trackpad; in fact, I would say that in any given group (however we define "pros" and "amaterus" when it comes to laptops:), most people will prefer trackpad. But I am to this day convinced it's simply the learning curve - until the day I see a video or a person using trackpad that doesn't make me cringe in the same way that a two-finger key-hunter does. I can understand that this seems patronizing, I struggle to put it in a way that doesn't seem personal, but for years I have witnessed colleagues who claim to be excellent with trackpad, they love it, it's great... and then they take 3-5 times longer to get things done as they go swipe... swipe... swipe oh there I am at the other end of the screen... swipe... swipe... oh there's the button:-/

toxik 7y ago
Would these people really do better with a trackpoint? It doesn’t sound like learning issues, but ability issues.