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This guy went out of his way to buy something with a trackpoint? Surely this is a hoax.
by chrisBob 11y ago
This guy went out of his way to buy something with a trackpoint? Surely this is a hoax.
- thrownaway2424 11y agoThe TrackPoint is God's own pointing device. If He had wanted us to use a mouse, He would have given us a third arm.
- mercurial 11y agoYeah, but the Devil messed with Lenovo's design process when they started trying to ape Apple with their single-piece, absolutely terrible, attempt at a Mac-like touchpad. This makes the trackpoint nearly useless. Apparently they got back to their senses with the more recent models, though...
- breischl 11y agoTrackpoints are fantastic once you're used to them. Particularly for reading long documents - they had a "scroll mode" button that would let you use the trackpoint to scroll through a document one-handed without moving from the home row. I miss that thing.
- esaym 11y agoI know some people that can't use mice without pain. Hence they are trackpoint all the way. I only use the trackpoint on my laptop as well, but I'd rather have my logitech mouse with 'tilt' style wheel.
- ferrari8608 11y agoOne of my coworkers has this issue. He brought in a trackball for that reason. Makes sense the trackpoint would be the ideal mouse in a laptop for that reason. No need to move your hands off the home row.
- jamescun 11y agoBack in the late 90s I had a Toshiba Satellite Pro 420 with the green nipple mouse. It was by far better than any touchpad that came along until very recently. (If anybody knows the actual term other than "nipple mouse" please let me know).
- srb- 11y agoYou must not be a programmer. Being able to move the mouse and scroll without your hands leaving the home row is genius.
- vhost- 11y agoWhat? Trackpoints are the best. I have a newer T440s with a trackpoint and I use it for everything mouse related.