Mouse with scroll wheel. A trackball is too slow and hard to move to the correct point. The scroll wheel makes everything a breeze. (BTW, did you know you can close a tab by clicking the trackball? Or you can create a new tab but clicking on the link with the trackball?)
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Alsø a Wacom Tablet.
A trackball mouse once bit my sister.
I switched to the wireless version of that when I had cats and would game. Dying because to much cat hair collected inside your mouse (pre-laser mice) was uncool. And I’ve never looked back. A wireless trackball allows me to place the trackball between me and the keyboard. That way I can move my right hand back and forth between the trackball and the keyboard by just pivoting my elbow.
Sony? I think you mean Lenovo. Officially it’s called the trackpoint (IIRC.) Un-officially it’s the nub, nipple mouse, or clit mouse.
They are basically put there for historical reasons. Back inthe day, most laptops had that for the built-in mouse. Then trackpads were made, and everyone switched to that, but Thinkpads (then branded under IBM) kept the nub. They eventually added a trackpad, but kept the nub, too. For some reason there is now a die-hard contingent of fans of the nub who only buy Thinkpads because they are the only ones with a nub.
Personally, I hate it…I had a Thinkpad back in college and my nub got messed up and drifted constantly.
I always wanted to find software that would let me use the nub as a joystick. I thought it might actually work better for that, as it feels like using a joystick to control the mouse. (I’m talking N64 style joystick).
I use cordless thumball. I chose trackball because despite the pictures and the description, I still don’t have the slightest clue what the difference between a trackball and a trackball mouse is and I have only ever heard this type called a trackball or a thumball.
Mouse! Mouse! Mouse!
I hate touchpads with a passion; can’t get accurate enough pointing with them. I also dislike trackballs and those nipple-nubbin things. There’s nothing like a good optical mouse with the sensitivity turned up to 11.
Similarly with me. I’m on my third tablet; I wore the first two out. (To be precise; I wore the tips of the styluses out, and couldn’t get replacements. And the first tablet used a 9-pin serial port…)
When I’m not on the tablet, I split my manipulations between the trackpad (love two-finger scrolling!) and the mouse.
I hates meeces to pieces!
Logitech Trackman Marble, here. Been using it for years. Fits nicely under my hand and means I never, EVER have to pick the damn thing up because I need to go further in a certain direction and I’ve run out of space to do it in. And no one else around me uses one, so no one else tries to use my computer. Hah!
I use a mouse, and neither do I. On both my home and work PCs I set the sensitivity high enough that going a full screen is maybe 6" of travel…and at home I even have dual monitors and have never had to lift it off the mouse pad to go from one end of one to the other of the other.