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I picked one up last night from Best Buy for $70. It only has support for 1 or 2 finger multi-touch, but it’s not too bad. It supports:

- 1-finger tap for LMB click.
- 1-finger slide for mouse pointer movement.
- 1-finger slide with left of finger tap for LMB click.
- 1-finger slide with right of finger tap for RMB click.
- 1-finger double-tap to drag.
- 2-finger tap for RMB click.
- 2-finger slide for scrolling.
- 2-finger quick left/right slide for browser-style back/forward.
- 2-finger spread/pinch for zoom.
- 2-finger twist for rotate.

There are 4 hard buttons, assignable to quite a few things (keystrokes, modifiers, builtin functions). They are oriented to the left side of the pad when in a right-handed orientation or on the right side of the pad when in a left-handed orientation.

It’s OSX and Windows compatible. An included driver is needed to support anything in addition to moving the mouse pointer.

It doesn’t come with a Wacom pen, but it sounds like there will be other tablets that will come with a pen. When a pen is brought near the surface of the tablet, it switches to pen mode, and the touch mode is disabled. I’m not sure if this one will support pen input.

As for usability, it’s quite similar to most “regular” trackpads, in my experience. It’s definitely not as advanced or sophisticated as the Touchstreams or the iGesturePads. But for basic features, with a small amount of support for multi-touch, I think I’m happy with what it can do. It’s also hard to complain about it, since it’s relatively inexpensive and will be readily available.

I’m planning on using it at home, instead of a trackball, to get a better feel for it. I’ll comment more as I use it.