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