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It has the TrackPoint, which is sort of a famous love/hate feature. (I love it.) The ThinkPad is my favorite all-time laptop design. No surprise to me that the
by sverige 8y ago
It has the TrackPoint, which is sort of a famous love/hate feature. (I love it.)
The ThinkPad is my favorite all-time laptop design. No surprise to me that the author is still using it after getting his MacBook back from the shop.
- davio 8y agoThe TrackPoint is the Vim of pointing devices. Need a couple thousand hours to get proficient and then everything else is inferior.
- xxpor 8y agoI have a trackpoint on my HP EliteBook G7, but they didn't include a middle button. So there's no way to scroll without using the scrollbar. I have to wonder if there's a patent reason or something because it seems like such a huge oversight.
- hakfoo 8y agoThe Dells at my work have a terrible Trackpoint with middle-button scroll, but it sucks badly. You have to hit the middle button, then scroll, or perhaps the other way around. Ultra-frustrating, and probably bad firmware or driver design. I'm sure the Trackpoint is a third-class citizen for Dell.
- Anarch157a 8y agoI used to love it, back when Thinkpads still had real buttons to go with it. Then they replaced them with trackpad clicking, which makes using it a pain, because it'd usually register movements besides the click, completely defeating the best feature of the TrackPoint, it's pixel-perfect precision. It was never as quick to use as a mouse, of course, but I could always position the cursor exactly where I wanted before clicking.
- initself 8y agoThere's no such thing as a Thinkpad without a Trackpoint and proper buttons.
- sergiosgc 8y agoThe second or third gen X1Carbon used a clickpad. And an LCD bar for the F1-F12 keys. The two design decisions were reversed in the next iteration of the laptop.
- mst 8y agoAnd the designer was fired and got a new job at Apple.
- snazz 8y agoThe T440? They had to revert it for the next generation (T450).
- Anarch157a 8y agoGreat. Now they can go back to my buying list.
- Anarch157a 8y agoThere were a couple of those in my last job. But apparently they reverted to having proper buttons.
- keithpeter 8y agoAlas, the L series thinkpads have the trackpoint but rely on the trackpad for clicking. Nice fast machines that have good battery life (e.g L440) but...
- larrik 8y agoAh yes, the "randomly click on the screen while typing G or H" device. I always pulled that off mine. Didn't love that tapping it produced a mouseclick.
- qu4z-2 8y agoYou can turn off tap-to-click (and I strongly recommend doing just that). Other than that it's the best pointer input device, though.