Touchpads are more compact than mice, so they're nice in that aspect, but a mouse offers faster movement and more precision. I voted mouse, but if I had my way I'd do everything with the keyboard.
i prefer mouse, because for me mouse is more easy to use while playing games such as shooting games... touchpad just for mouse hater...
it's only a tv with a touch input digitizer, or a lcd projector, and that other one looks more like an overhead projector that can capture input, clearly NOT a multi-touch table as we were on about, also, € 1500($~2,025.75 USD) is still a lot Ewww, trackpoint XD
Hmm....this has been out some 6 years, price already came down, still expensive and quite impracticable for anything remotely useful.
Computers took a long time to come down in price too. It's just a matter of time until the technology becomes cheaper to make. I'm not sure why it wouldn't be practical for quite a few things. Imagine playing RTS games on it!
that's just it, that won't be considered legal in terms of fairness, just as they don't like certain controllers from being used. Looks like it could be considered as cheating easily.
For netbooks or small screened Desktop PCs used for doing stuff other than gaming I think touch screens would be better than a mouse, especially if you want to draw free hand which is difficult to do with a mouse. But for gaming? I think not, especially when you play First person shooters or MMORPGs as mice & a keyboard are better suited for those.
You are looking at the wrong board... I mean the multitouch board for touch with anything. But the one with the pen is also fun. And € 1.500,- is not too much for that board + beamer.