Trackpoint versus Trackpad ?

[Eboy]

A longtime IBM/Lenovo laptop user and a fan of the Trackpoint "eraser head" input device, I have started to look at Macbooks. I went to a local Apple store. They showed me how the Macbook Trackpad worked, and how I could edit documents with it.

I played with it for a while and did some writing. I don't know. Is the Trackpad something that is just a matter of getting used to? I do a lot of writing and it seems I had to move my hands a lot more, and take more time, on the Macbook for basic text editing. Is the Trackpoint or Trackpad inherently faster for text editing?

I searched on Google and thought I detected an overall preference for the Trackpoint, but not by a lot. And, no one really says why they voted the way they did except that "they like it."