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Odd. I find the trackpoint more precise than any touchpad, Macs included. I've owned Macbooks for years yet am instantly happier, and faster, on the keyboard an

Odd. I find the trackpoint more precise than any touchpad, Macs included. I've owned Macbooks for years yet am instantly happier, and faster, on the keyboard and trackpoint of the wife's T series. I'd pay significantly more over already inflated Apple prices to have my MBP with a trackpoint and no touchpad.

masklinn 8y ago
Yeah odd it's as if different people have different sensibilities and my experience with trackpoints has no influence on yours and the other way around. How surprising.
- NeedMoreTea 8y ago
  You were the one expressing in absolutes.
  - masklinn 8y ago
    > You were the one expressing in absolutes. No, I was not. Go back and actually read my comment, I very specifically talked about myself and my precision using a trackpoint. In support of lokedhs professing to the same. And as an expression of the uselessness and irrelevance of isostatic's comment answering a question nobody'd asked. But as usual the trackpoint zealots can't even take an expression of personal issues as anything but a personal attack on their way of life. Ya folks are tiring.
    - NeedMoreTea 8y ago
      > That's completely immaterial to the precision of it, which is why I'm unable to use it To me that reads as though you are unable to use it because the device itself is imprecise. That some indeed do find it more precise would seem to exonerate the device. Personal preference, is a different can of worms. :) No zealotry present at all, here at least.
      - masklinn 8y ago
        > To me that reads as though you are unable to use it because the device itself is imprecise. It is a call back to lokedhs's original issue: > Once in a while I try to use it, but I find it almost impossible control with any kind of precision. Changing the sensitivity doesn't help much. which is what they were asking about when they wrote > How do you use it? Is this just a matter of getting used to it, and if it is, how long does it take? right afterwards, not "what finger are you using" (the index of the dominant hand would certainly be the obvious choice to just about anyone).

masklinn 8y ago

Yeah odd it's as if different people have different sensibilities and my experience with trackpoints has no influence on yours and the other way around. How surprising.

NeedMoreTea 8y ago
You were the one expressing in absolutes.
- masklinn 8y ago
  > You were the one expressing in absolutes. No, I was not. Go back and actually read my comment, I very specifically talked about myself and my precision using a trackpoint. In support of lokedhs professing to the same. And as an expression of the uselessness and irrelevance of isostatic's comment answering a question nobody'd asked. But as usual the trackpoint zealots can't even take an expression of personal issues as anything but a personal attack on their way of life. Ya folks are tiring.
  - NeedMoreTea 8y ago
    > That's completely immaterial to the precision of it, which is why I'm unable to use it To me that reads as though you are unable to use it because the device itself is imprecise. That some indeed do find it more precise would seem to exonerate the device. Personal preference, is a different can of worms. :) No zealotry present at all, here at least.
    - masklinn 8y ago
      > To me that reads as though you are unable to use it because the device itself is imprecise. It is a call back to lokedhs's original issue: > Once in a while I try to use it, but I find it almost impossible control with any kind of precision. Changing the sensitivity doesn't help much. which is what they were asking about when they wrote > How do you use it? Is this just a matter of getting used to it, and if it is, how long does it take? right afterwards, not "what finger are you using" (the index of the dominant hand would certainly be the obvious choice to just about anyone).