Hmmm
I've borrowed my mother's MacIntel laptop to try it out, and I've gotta say that given the choice between a trackball, a twiddle stick, or a touchpad that the touchpad (particularly the one on the MacIntel) comes in a long ways back from a trackball or touchpad. But, aside from that annoying feature, the MacIntel laptops are certainly fast little puppies (fast enough so that firing up firesomething doesn't immediately hurl the machine into thrash) and if I won the lottery it would be a shoo-in replacement for the used toshiba with a broken battery that I use now.