>>I use the touchpad--but only on airplanes :-) I always use an external keypad and mouse at home or in the office and carry a mouse in the laptop case.
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>One of my favorite features in the current crop of Dells is a driver that disables the touchpad whenever a mouse is plugged in. Otherwise, I'm forever tapping the touchpad, effectively a mouseclick, and sending the cursor all over the screen EXCEPT where I'm typing.


Leave it to a musician to improvise <g>.