I believe the trackpad is laid out that way so that you can comfortably rest your left hand on WASD and right hand on trackpad for mouselook, when playing FPS or RTS type games. For non-gaming uses or left-handed users, I agree it is a complete non-starter. Also I tend to think that if you are serious enough to spend $4k on a gaming laptop, you can probably just shell out for a decent mouse instead of using the trackpad.