Have you tried using a touch pad? Which is best mouse or touch pad?

What is a touch pad? I hadn't heard of it until now other than for laptop computers. I have a wireless mouse and keyboard though. I am using a regular mouse pad to move my mouse on.

Most of my work is highly computer-intensive, so I have 3 pointing devices active at one time. The first is a Logitech wireless recharegeable optical mouse for my left hand. For the right I use a small candy apple red optical travel mouse. In the middle, under a slide out tray just behind my keyboard, I have a Wacom Intuos Intuos 3 graphics tablet. Four, actually, because my computer has a built-in 2 x 3 " touch pad, which I only use on occasion. It has a scroll area that comes in handy once in a while, though, as scrolling repetitively with the mice can make my thumbs sore after a while.

When we were visiting my brother-in-law and his wife in British Columbia, their duaghter had a laptop with a touch pad. I wanted to check my email and I could not use the touchpad, I would press it wrong, so I prefer to have a mouse attached to the computer. It is much easier for me to use and I can practice using the touchpad when I am not connected to the internet.

Well, my friend introduced me to the i-pen, and I really liked it! I am going to buy one and use it! I'm not familiar with the touchpad, so I don't know what it is like! Although I plan on buying a laptop, and they have the touchpad on it!

If your just going to do a quick browse, a touch pad ain't that difficult to have. If your going to be more technical like using applications like Adobe PhotoShop, you'd certainly need a mouse or better if you have a Graphic Tablet along with a pen ^_^

I`ve tried using touchpad also with my sister`s laptop, I wasn`t able to do my job as fast as I can when i am using the mouse so I used the mouse instead of the touchpad. It`s much easier and more convenient for me that way. I think it will take me awhile to get used to the touchpad since I don`t really use it.

I tried using a friends touchpad and I just couldn't handle it, it stressed me out somewhat, it was almost like i just didn't have any control so when i use her computer i have to have a mouse plugged into it...

i used to prefer using a mouse before, because it's easier to control. but then i notiched how my wrists would hurt after long use. so i switched to a trackball. it's like a mouse-only you don't have to require to much wrists movement. just use ur fingers to move the ball attached to it. that was then when i was using a desktop pc. but now i am using a lapton and it has a touchpad attached to it. i thought it would be very difficult to go about my task using a touchpad coz im not able to control it much. but then i got used to it already, but if i had a choice i'll definitely switch back to a trackball.

If you just browse internet and want to lay in bed, then touchpad, becouse most of funcions can be done with keyboard. If You need to work quickly, scroll much, visit many webpages, play games, write documents, etc., then mouse and I would use USB mouse, not wireless.