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I 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, becaus
by Anarch157a 8y ago
I 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...