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Those patents must be due to expire soon if they haven’t already. Maybe system76 can save us?

• yellowapple 6y ago
  In order for System76 to save us, Clevo would have to save us, first (since the former sells rebranded laptops manufactured by the latter, last I checked). Dell and HP already offer TrackPoint-equivalents on their Latitudes/Precisions and EliteBooks (respectively) and have been doing so for more than a decade now, so it seems the patents are definitely expired. I feel like the IBM/Lenovo version is higher-quality, though.
  • duckerude 6y ago
    Wikipedia claims: > Since ThinkPad computers have a nub that is responsive to pressure in a direction, and there is a patent for this,[citation needed] other companies have made it so a person has to move the finger a large distance to cause the nub to rock from side to side in a much less efficient way.
  • touisteur 6y ago
    Oh don't start me on elitebook and HP's 'trackpoints'... So disappointing. Maybe it's the drivers, maybe it's some kind of placebo effect but the thinkpad one is and always has been so much better...
    • yellowapple 6y ago
      Well yeah, that's HP for ya, lol The Dell ones are a bit better, but still nowhere near the same quality as a proper TrackPoint.