That little nubbin was the ONLY usable onboard pointing tech for SO LONG! I think things have changed enough now that younger people may not remember, but holy

That little nubbin was the ONLY usable onboard pointing tech for SO LONG! I think things have changed enough now that younger people may not remember, but holy COW did Windows laptop trackpads suck BADLY for a very, very long time. They were so unusable that pretty much every road warrior I knew on a Win machine carried a mouse. At one point, a colleague who had forgotten his mouse took a cab from the hotel to Best Buy to buy another one. I was stunned and teased him for being a hothouse flower or whatever. "Wouldn't you do the same thing?" "Of course not. My trackpad is fine!" (then as now, I was on a Mac) "Impossible! All trackpads suck!" "Well, try mine." He did. He was stunned. Then I tried his, and holy shit I was enraged on his behalf.