Trackpad with Surface Book cannot navigate 3D View I can use blender fine with a mouse, however when using just the built in trackpad of my laptop, I cannot navigate the 3d View at all. No panning, no zooming, no rotating. Is this normal?
It's normal because the default controls for navigating around Blender's viewport all rely on clicking on the scroll wheel of a mouse. No laptops that I know of have a similar input that blender will use by default. You will have to set up the input to how you want to control the viewport. There is an option to 'Emulate 3 Button Mouse' in the User preferences in the input tab that may be what you are looking for.