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I came here to make a snarky comment about their keyboards, but the keyboard shown in the article looks extremely good.

skavi 3y ago
It’s interesting that it looks exactly like a ThinkPad’s, with the concave keycaps and red trackpoint/buttons. If it feels the same, that’s a very good thing.
- wander_homer 3y ago
  That's because this is a ThinkPad keyboard. I'll highly doubt that they will get a license to use those by default. They either have to come up with their own design or make it compatible with a ThinkPad keyboard, which you then have to buy and install yourself.
rektide 3y ago
Definitely a Lenovo TrackPoint. I use a Bluetooth version quite regularly.
- aigoochamna 3y ago
  It is a think pad keyboard, it even has the windows key logo on it.
sharms 3y ago
It is a Thinkpad keyboard because it fits the tracepoint module they are looking to integrate: https://twitter.com/jeremy_soller/status/1662551130768044032 https://twitter.com/jeremy_soller/status/1662551130768044032
- neilv 3y ago
  Very interesting. With a good TrackPoint implementation (including getting the buttons right), and a decent touchpad for people who prefer that, I could see standardizing on it for fleet laptops. They have even better open source thinking than Lenovo (which inherited some good thinking from IBM), and the US provenance is significant to some companies. (Though I'd probably standardize on Debian Stable rather than PopOS.)
- commoner 3y ago
  This is very exciting. After Dell and HP dropped out over the past year, I've been waiting for a company other than Lenovo to build a well-designed laptop with a pointing stick. This company being System76 makes the news even better, since I know the hardware will receive first-class support on Linux. I'm glad that System76 is taking the community laptop suggestions seriously (implementing a ThinkPad-style TrackPoint is the top suggestion by number of thumbs up: https://github.com/system76/laptop-suggestions/issues/25 https://github.com/system76/laptop-suggestions/issues/25).

It’s interesting that it looks exactly like a ThinkPad’s, with the concave keycaps and red trackpoint/buttons. If it feels the same, that’s a very good thing.

wander_homer 3y ago
That's because this is a ThinkPad keyboard. I'll highly doubt that they will get a license to use those by default. They either have to come up with their own design or make it compatible with a ThinkPad keyboard, which you then have to buy and install yourself.

rektide 3y ago

Definitely a Lenovo TrackPoint. I use a Bluetooth version quite regularly.

aigoochamna 3y ago
It is a think pad keyboard, it even has the windows key logo on it.

sharms 3y ago

It is a Thinkpad keyboard because it fits the tracepoint module they are looking to integrate: https://twitter.com/jeremy_soller/status/1662551130768044032 https://twitter.com/jeremy_soller/status/1662551130768044032

neilv 3y ago
Very interesting. With a good TrackPoint implementation (including getting the buttons right), and a decent touchpad for people who prefer that, I could see standardizing on it for fleet laptops. They have even better open source thinking than Lenovo (which inherited some good thinking from IBM), and the US provenance is significant to some companies. (Though I'd probably standardize on Debian Stable rather than PopOS.)
commoner 3y ago
This is very exciting. After Dell and HP dropped out over the past year, I've been waiting for a company other than Lenovo to build a well-designed laptop with a pointing stick. This company being System76 makes the news even better, since I know the hardware will receive first-class support on Linux. I'm glad that System76 is taking the community laptop suggestions seriously (implementing a ThinkPad-style TrackPoint is the top suggestion by number of thumbs up: https://github.com/system76/laptop-suggestions/issues/25 https://github.com/system76/laptop-suggestions/issues/25).