One revelation I've had that those of you hunting for laptops with the aforementioned navigation appendage may have also had:  you'll find laptops with nubs in the small business section of these vendor sites, and not the home user section.  I don't know why they'd differentiate.  As a business user I need separate hardware and software?  Am I not capable of enjoying a multimedia PC with a cool cherry red case?  And as a home user, am I not savvy enough to use a nub to move my mouse around?  The big argument I'm seeing out there is that the learning curve is higher - one touch and the mouse flies around the screen.  Well, then just adjust the sensitivity.   They should just display *all* laptops in the *same* place and let you filter by feature/preference.  It would make the whole thing a lot less confusing.   So most laptops pitched to Joe User are trackpoint-free.   Its not hard to slip it in between the G and the H and add the left click and right click below the space bar - it's so incredibly annoying with a touchpad to keep moving your hand down to navigate while keeping your fingers at the ready over the keyboard to type.   I think its time to stand up for our beloved and vital nubs and demand that this highly useful highly productive feature appear on *all* notebooks.  Who's with me?