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Originally Posted by stevej37

^^^ Why would any of the first three be better than a plain infrared wireless mouse?

I don't 'get' the fifth one.

If I surfed a lot especially if I did any gaming, my wrist would get sore from all of the movement. Using a track ball, there's very little, to no movement of your wrist. It's all just fingers.

The 5th one in the Apple "magic trackpad" and it's awesome. It's more powerful than a mouse or trackball in my experience. you use a finger to move the cursor around. You can "click" and "right click" (2 fingers) as well as using a slew of other gestures (multiple fingers) to do a lot more. 2 fingers up, down, or left/right will scroll. 3 fingers swiped up will show you all of the windows on the screen in small thumbnails. 3 fingers swiped down will show you all of the windows of the current app in thumbnails. 3 fingers left or right swipe between desktops (multiple desktops is awesome). 3 fingers pinched in pulls up all of your app icons. 3 fingers pinched out will clear all apps so you can see your desktop. I'm sure there are more, but those are the ones that I use.

If you get used to using a touchscreen smart phone, then to me the touchpad is pretty simple and intuitive to use.