I have a new work laptop.
It is a IBMLenovo Thinkpad T440p.
There is no buttons next to the trackpad.
The trackpad is actually the left/right mouse buttons, i.e. the whole pad moves up and down!
Our Thinkpad does that, but it also has buttons above the trackpad. I find myself switching between them without any apparent consitency.
Other than Apple trackpads, they're universally suckier than a grumpy black hole. My Dell has a trackpad so ludicrously over-sensitive that it can detect a ghost farting next door sending the cursor scurrying to the edge of a screen. The only way to type with it active is with ballerina hands, your wrists painfully angled so your palms come nowhere near the damn thing. Ah, turn it down in the settings, you say. You can. Despite an entire slider, it has two modes. Hypersensitive and insensitive. In the latter mode, it just shrugs nonchalantly every time you try to use it.
What's that, you want me to move the cursor... As a back-up it has a nipple-thing. I thought that kind of shit was embedded in temporal concrete and disposed of back in the 1980s. Trust me, if you used the kind of force that kind of nipple requires on a real nipple, you'd have some explaining to do.
Both options conspire to make you turn them off and get a mouse (in my case they've provided a home for the old Mighty Mouse, a nice mouse, but another venture into bad nippledom). Computer designers, just stop with the nipples, OK?
The Macbook trackpad on the other hand is a thing of swipy beauty. Mine does one tap for left click, two for left.