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How 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?
by mehrdadn 9y ago
How 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 ?)