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Yup, I remember. You had volume and brightness, mute buttons for the mic and speakers, with LED indicators...saved me some embarrassment a few times in conferen
by LeifCarrotson 5y ago
Yup, I remember. You had volume and brightness, mute buttons for the mic and speakers, with LED indicators...saved me some embarrassment a few times in conference calls! Sliders to power down the wireless and save battery. You could even use a remappable button if you did want to customize it for something non-stupid, like launching a terminal. And the keys had comfortable travel and tactile feedback! We didn't need dongles and hubs, we had ports all over, and user-replaceable parts, upgradeable RAM, decent thermals. You could swap in a DVD drive, or an SSD, or a battery expansion. The standard batteries were hot-swappable with a thumb slide, rather than glued in...
*looks down at Thinkpad T420*
Oh, yeah, and the print screen/break/insert buttons like on a full-size keyboard; my fingers have muscle memory of them but my conscious mind forgot they were there. Yeah, those were the days!