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I'd rather have a trackpad than not have a trackpad. Sometimes using touch doesn't work that well.

In my experience, having to reach and touch the screen to get my cursor on a textbox is annoying. I'd rather us a swipe of my thumb to position the cursor.

Different strokes for different folks. I'm glad the trackpad is still here.

Feedback from the Surface Pro 1 and 2 was that without a decent trackpad they were annoying. As in, they had trackpads but they sucked. Got a lot better with the Pro 3.

Exactly, instead of "get a bigger trackpad" the answer could be "get a mouse".

I have a touchscreen netbook, and using it without a mouse or trackpad is almost impossible. You lose a lot of fine control with just a finger.