A touchscreen is VERY inaccurate even with a stylus. Firstly, a finger is a blunt object--so that's patently less accurate. Secondly, a stylus point press on a touchscreen is a guessed value based on contact points that feel pressure. Lastly, since you have to cover the spot to press the spot--you can't always see what you're drawing or pressing on.

If I could plug in my drawing tablet, I can DEFINITELY draw more accurately and with better ergonomics on-the-go. Also, a mouse will allow me to drag better, select whole lists (with a keyboard's CTRL and SHIFT keys) and so on. Just a WHOLE lot more accuracy and comfortable.


As for support--not without hacking.. and then it's not very good from what I've read (although I've yet to try it myself). I have a bluetooth mouse as well as a USB dongle to plug in an IMPS/2 style USB scroll-wheel mouse and it besides recognizing it as a mouse device, the GUI doesn't use it at all--no pointer, nothing. So it's obviously not supported by default for ordinary users.


Anyway.. that's not the topic of this thread, but my wants and needs are there for this.