Laptops w/o Trackpads?

Leave Blank asks: "Are there any laptops out there anymore that -don't- have trackpads? I can't use them properly at all (for whatever reason - my current theory is that it's linked to my severe Raynaud's - some days I can activate a trackpad from a bit under a centimetre above it, other days it just doesn't work at all, so I always carry around an external trackball with my current laptop. Does anyone on Slashdot have recommendations I mightn't have managed to google?" "A trackpad is just pointlessly annoying for me, because I have to remember to turn it off or I'll 'hit' it accidentally while typing (sometimes just by waving my hand over it, remember), and even if it is off, I'm left with a nagging feeling it's wasting space, which annoys my tender european design sensibilities. So, what are my options? - I want a top-of-the-range in processor/gfx laptop, I quite like the little keyboard, um, nubbins, but I can't find a _new_ laptop with one but without a trackpad, and ultra-pricy tablet PCs typically actually come with a freaking trackpad too. Seems to me a laptop without a trackpad might even be smaller, and I'm quite prepared to live without one as outlined."

Comments

Sorry dude, your dead

[aardwolf204]

Trackpads don't work for you because your fingers are too cold. This is a result of you being dead. I hate for you to find out this way, but its true. You've been dead for a while now. There was actually a slashdot story on it, maybe you missed it? It was duped twice. Seems you died after a 36 hour starcraft session at a cybercafe. As your body lay there lifeless, your soul has been carying on and seriously the slashdot posts from the after life are kinda freaking us out here. If you dont mind, just walk towards the bright light and leave us alone. Oh, and give a word up to big J.

Re:good question

[byolinux]

I've always called it a clit mouse - maybe that's a British thing.