laptop keyboard

[Biggles50]

Your Finger is the Mouse when it is on the Trackpad.

The Cursor on the screen goes where your Finger moves it.

Additionally from the bottom of the Trackpad for 10mm moving up towards the keyboard and split in the middle of the Trackpad are the Left and Right buttons.

You do get used to it.

Consider yourselves lucky in the olden days we had on our Laptops two buttons for the equivalent of the left and right mouse buttons but the real killer was the little 1/4” button in between the keys that acted as a mouse and somehow we had to control the damn Laptop with said button.

[sandiep]

I have had laptops for years and always use a wireless mouse. I'm not comfortable using a trackpad however often I try.
On either side of the trackpad the laptop casing can be the surface on which to move the mouse around, which is what I am doing now, you don't need a separate surface if working in tight situations.
The ideal is to use the trackpad of course but using a mouse beats throwing the laptop at the wall! 

I quite agree I find using wireless mouse much easier and SPELK it doesnt disable trackpad. one disadvantage with mouse is when battery goes  I can at least use trackpad to move cursor to turn off