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My laptop has a trackpoint (and a trackpad, but it's kind of crappy) and I use it when I'm not using an external mouse (which is like 99% of the time nowadays), but you can't use it to click... I use the buttons for that.
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I never use my laptop without a mouse, really.  
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 I can't stand the tap-to-click touchpads because I always end up clicking/dragging random things almost every time I go to move the cursor.
Of course, I don't like using the trackpad at all since I have my mouse, but I still have to use it for scrolling because of the "quality" of apple mice.
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Tap to click has bothered me ever since I got my first laptop back in 2003. It'd be nice if it wasn't so damn oversensitive...
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The few times I use a laptop with no mouse, I just go for button clicks.
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I absolutely hate tapping to click. It's always the first thing I disable whenever I get a new laptop.
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Originally posted by CB
Oddly, I use a mouse to move the cursor with my right hand, and click the buttons on my keyboard with my left.
My mouse has been gradually failing, so I have to do this occasionally nowadays... (Mostly in situations where an accidental double-click would be bad)
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Button clicks. Definitely those.
Tap to click for me always results in multiple accidental clicks, and makes it a bitch to drag and drop.
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I'm not even sure how you're supposed to drag and drop with tap-to-click.
One of my old laptops had tapping enabled with no way to turn it off, which was problematic when my mouse died and I had to use the touchpad as a backup for a while. It turns out that the computer didn't come with the correct touchpad driver  ____________________
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Tap-to-click works fine on my laptop, which is one of the MacBook Pros before the multitouch trackpads came out. Never had any issues with accidental movement or clicks; it's really very good at detecting accidental input and ignoring it. I also have to say that it's probably the best trackpad I've ever used, but I still prefer a real mouse if one is available.
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I use the buttons on my touchpad. Tap to click is just annoying, especially when you just put your finger down on the pad to start moving the cursor and it instantly clicks on whatever the cursor happens to be on.
I've been using this laptop for so long that I'm actually far more comfortable using a trackpad than an actual mouse at this point, even for playing FPSes and other games.
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Button, if I absolutely have to. I fucking hate pads with a passion.
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