Help me prepare for eventual external trackpad death

Post date: 2018-11-10 09:04:41

My Logitech Touchpad T650 will eventually die. It has been EOL'd, and I've been unable to find a similar replacement. Help!

Due to various neck and shoulder issues, I prefer using a trackpad for what mousing I can't avoid, and I've used this T650 in Windows for probably 6 years without a problem. Except it's 6 years old and all hardware eventually fails. I'd like to be ready with an alternative when that happens.

As far as I can tell the external trackpad market for Windows is basically dead? The T650 was EOL'd a few years ago, and NOS replacements are ridiculously expensive. As an additional complication, I'm a lefty mouser. All the ambidextrous trackballs I've used have had one problem or another, although the big one is that they usually have absolutely no concept of either middle clicking or scroll wheel support. It's not 1993 any more, I can't live like that.

I haven't tried lefty mousing in quite some time, so I can't remember if that's a physical impossibility or a brain mapping impossibility. ("My index finger is how I left click, but it's resting on the right mouse button, argh stupid brain.")

I actually have a collection of Apple Magic Trackpads, but I haven't been able to uncover anything like actual support for them in Windows.

Have I just not looked hard enough for third party external trackpads? Are they out there for accessibility purposes? Am I missing some other option that doesn't require me to hack together something terrible with a raspberry pi and a touch screen?

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