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Sounds like what you need is God's own chosen pointing device -- an Apple trackpad.
by bitwize 4y ago
Sounds like what you need is God's own chosen pointing device -- an Apple trackpad.
- garciansmith 4y agoAnd then be stuck in the same situation: tied to one company, albeit a different one? But no, I still prefer the trackpoint: any trackpad, no matter how godly, still involves moving my hand from the keyboard down, back and forth, back and forth. Nothing is speedier than to move the mouse pointer around with a trackpoint. And I would grant for certain applications a trackpad is better, like image editing where your hand is on the trackpad most of the time. But for anything involving heavy keyboard use, a trackpoint can't be beat.
- jaxn 4y agoI would easily pay 20% more for a MacBook with a TrackPoint.
- mcbuilder 4y agoYeah, easily $1k more if I could have that and perfect Linux support.
- chr 4y agoYou may well be aware that there is an external keyboard from Lenovo that mimics the Thinkpad keyboard: "ThinkPad TrackPoint Keyboard II" Then there are mechanic keyboards with trackpoints from Tex in Taiwan: https://tex.com.tw/collections/all https://tex.com.tw/collections/all
- jaxn 4y agoI have a Tex Shinobi and the Lenovo trackpoint keyboard. The Tex is on my Linux workstation at the office. When I had a Thinkpad and used the Trackpoint keyboard with my workstation, I had the same muscle memory for both. Bought a MacBook for battery life.
- innocenat 4y agoI am probably a real minority but I feel like my finger skin is peeling off after long session of Apple trackpad. Meanwhile I could use Lenovo trackpoint all day every day without problem.