PC keyboards

Jules> I don't think I've ever met anyone who likes a trackpad after Jules> using one of the mouse nipples. I'm also surprised that it's a Jules> significant price difference between nipple and Jules> trackpad. Anyone know why laptop manufacturers insist on Jules> giving people trackpads, rather than a better (and more Jules> compact) mouse-a-like? Because your guess is mistaken. There certainly are people (I'm one of them) who have use the "eraser head" thing in the past and refuse ever to use it again in the future. Whenever IT has set up a PC for me, I have always laid down a requirement that it must *not* have an eraserhead mouse control (or if it has one, it must also have a trackpad *and* it must have a way to disable the eraserhead). Fortunately, with the exception of several generations of IBM machines for the first few years after IBM invented that thing, avoiding it has always been possible. UI choices are very much a personal preference thing. Keyboards are another -- some people really like the warped keyboards (like the "Natural" keyboard); others won't have anything to do with them. paul