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This laptop actually has a pointing stick with three mouse buttons above the trackpad, which is nice. (Dell calls it Dual Point instead of TrackPoint.) It's a s
by commoner 3y ago
This laptop actually has a pointing stick with three mouse buttons above the trackpad, which is nice. (Dell calls it Dual Point instead of TrackPoint.) It's a shame that Dell no longer makes any laptops with pointing sticks and that the ones they did make used Intel instead of AMD Ryzen 4000+ processors.
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- usrusr 3y agoI hardly ever use the nub, but it factors into my buying decisions nonetheless because when I use a touch pad and there are buttons both below and above, I always prefer the ones above (and I'm not a friend of those pads with whole-pad click, I'd rather completely abandon any clickyness and go with solid state tap gestures alone).
- jmclnx 3y ago>This laptop actually has a pointing stick with three mouse buttons above the trackpad Did not notice that, the trackpoint is my number 1 requirement for a laptop. The other is the ability to completely disable the track pad via BIOS. Many do not allow that anymore, but I usually can disable it using xinput. And of course the # 2 requirement is no Nvidia anything :) If it has both Nvidia and Intel graphics, Nvidia must be able to be disabled using BIOS.
- unnah 3y agoSorry to hear that. Indeed it seems none of the current Dell Latitudes or other professional models have a pointing stick any more. It looks like HP has also dropped the pointing stick from its latest professional laptops. Interesting how the two main competitors for enterprise laptop fleets made the same downgrade at the same time... At least Lenovo still provides the Trackpoint on multiple Thinkpad models.