[__alexs]

+1 to mice being evil. I'm not convinced by ergonomic mice despite having used one for the past 4-5 years. They are less painful to use but I find they just hide the problem. Using any normal mouse these days becomes painful within a couple of hours for me.

Instead I use a Trackpoint basically all the time now. I have ThinkPads at home and a MacBook Pro with one of these http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lenovo-ThinkPad-Travel-Keyboard-Trac... at work. The best features are less waving my arms around and a much more convenient location for note paper to live that doesn't require stretching or sliding things around when I need to write stuff.

Sadly (due to what I assume is a patent issue) there aren't very many hardware options for static pointing stick devices and they are all either ex-IBM hardware or current Lenovo hardware.

[ryan-c]

I actually hacked a Trackpoint into my Kinesis this past weekend - hopefully it won't take me too long to adjust. I still haven't figured out a great solution to clicking - at the moment I have the right control key mapped to a click using mousekeys (linux), but I don't have a good way to right click.

http://i.imgur.com/q6AQG.jpg

[jarek]

Some reasonably recent Dell or HP laptop models also have a trackpoint (though personally I didn't like either of them as well as the Thinkpads').

[__alexs]

Most of the imitations have movement in the stick it's self (and even a dead zone in the center sometimes) while the Thinkpads one is totally static and has only a rubber moulding to provide a little play.