>We're at the point where every web page and operating system control is large enough to be hit with a finger anyway, why go through the effort of getting a vir

>We're at the point where every web page and operating system control is large enough to be hit with a finger anyway, why go through the effort of getting a virtual pointer to hover over it when you can just tap it? The button is _right there_! Because moving my wrist a little bit is much easier than moving my entire arm. If the way you position your laptop allows you to not have to move your entire arm then you don't have a laptop, you have a tablet, and that's another discussion altogether. Also having mouse interfaces allows for interface elements to be smaller, thus showing more information at the same time.