It may be a little presumptuous to say the Magic Trackpad will revolutionise desktop pointing devices. But in truth, for all non-gaming activity on a computer, gestures* on trackpads make for a far superior experience because they don’t ‘get in the way’. Plus, I always seem to experience mechanical failures with mice, especially with scroll balls that die after four months with the older Apple Mighty Mouse. I guess a trackpad would cure my blight, if my current Microsoft Arc mouse decides to drop dead.

And now, we shall await the computer desk with a touch keyboard and trackpad built on the desk surface itself.

*Dear Apple, please build-in a native gesture for middle clicks in OS X sometime soon.