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ThinkPad doesn't need a trackpad, the trackpoint with three mouse buttons underneath are the perfect way of using the computer. No need to move your hands off f
by pimeys 9y ago
ThinkPad doesn't need a trackpad, the trackpoint with three mouse buttons underneath are the perfect way of using the computer. No need to move your hands off from the keyboard.
And please, never change the classic black and red design.
- mehrdadn 9y agoHow do you use that darn stick accurately and efficiently? :-) It's straight velocity control, there's no position control at all. How do people aim with that?
- lorenzhs 9y agoYou get the hang of it pretty quickly by just using it for a few days. I don’t even have a mouse on my desk at work (Desktop + ThinkPad external keyboard), my hands never have to leave the keyboard’s home row :)
- DocTomoe 9y agoAbout one day of training does the trick.
- noufalibrahim 9y agoI find it much more accurate than a trackpad. When I was younger, I actually played some games purely with it. Index finger to control the direction and thumb for the buttons. I have been using thinkpads almost exclusively since 2003 or so though.
- agumonkey 9y agoI never had any trouble when I discovered the trackpoint. Issues: - at least on pre 2010 thinkpads, the sensor may recalibrate weirdly once a week and the pointer will fight you for 2 seconds (annoying but rare enough so you don't smash the laptop) - Aiming is not very precise, but I'm a keyboard head, so the less movement my wrists do, the better... trackpads are hell for me, and I rarely need precise (by that I mean, photoshop or real time analog control precise) positioning. Also I find it way easier to drag and drop with a trackpoint, on a trackpad the frontier between single click, long press and drag, release is so thin.. I lost track(sic) of the amount of times I triggered false positives of every cases (who never dragged something while hovering or resting his thumb too close to the pad surface ?)