> I am still suprised by the number of people that want trackpad's

I occasionally have need to use a laptop in conditions where a mouse is inconvenient, so i prefer to have a trackpad, but I find that even the best trackpad is far inferior to a mouse. (Trackball, at least the kind that gets integrated into a laptop, isn't an improvement, IMO over a trackpad.)

On my Macs I have always used both mouse and trackpad. When I use a PC like the thinkpad I usually ignore the trackpad.