This laptop has one of the best latitude keyboards ever (the feel, not the layout), but the touchpad is one of the worst I have ever used. It is unusuable for various actions, especialy as the author mentioned, for click and drag operations.
If you write code, or deal with text, you will have a terrible time using the trackpad to select portions of text.
Dell needs to go back to the physical buttons on the touchpad.
The touchpad design is bad enough to make me want to go back to the 7400 or older latitudes.
I don't see any changes on the new latitude 7430 either.