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If you use a laptop, do you use a separate keyboard and mouse or the built-in keyboard and mouse pad?

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by OmegaWolf747 on September 1st, 2009
External keyboard and mouse! I hate touchpads.
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- Me, too.
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by 8 Jan 2004-10 Dec 2009 on September 1st, 2009
I prefer the keyboard in my Aspire One to any of the other keyboards I have ever owned. Despite my large hands, I have slender fingers and thus have no problem with teh *slightly* undersized keys, and the compact layout makes it much easier for me to type than on a full-sized keyboard.

There are a few things that an external scroll-mouse makes easier, but after configuring the Synaptics trackpad on my AA1, I have no issues with it. I can scroll fairly well both horizontally and vertically, and can click, double-click, or drag with either mouse-button without actually using the buttons on either side of my trackpad. Accordingly, I use the trackpad for *most* of my stuff. Of course, I can only do that on a Synaptics pad that is configured to my tastes; I am klutzy on any other trackpad.
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by Thriftymaid on September 1st, 2009
I always use a wired mouse. I refuse to deal with the touchpad -- I disconnect it. I had an IBM laptop years ago that had a button in the center of the keyboard that controlled the pointer and buttons for clicking. That was tolerable in a pinch.
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- The J-stick? Those things were HORRID! There is a reason you don't see them anymore!
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  by 8 Jan 2004-10 Dec 2009 on September 1st, 2009
- It wasn't called a J-stick (I think I would remember). Anyway, it is what IBM used before selling out to Lenovo.
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- I remember now, it was called Trackpoint.
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- That was the marketing term, but most people I know called it the J-stich due to it's placement.
  
  You can call it whatever you want, but me and ever geek I know call it "useless". Well, except for a few pervs who compared the finesse required to operate it to certain parts of the female anatomy which also require a great deal of skill and dexterity....
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by pauly on September 1st, 2009
I will sometimes use a separate mouse if I need to work in Photoshop or something.
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