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The trackpoint alone makes a thinkpad so comfortable to accurately and quickly get a lot done on for mouse workflows when no external mouse is attached, that no
by pigeons 9mo ago
The trackpoint alone makes a thinkpad so comfortable to accurately and quickly get a lot done on for mouse workflows when no external mouse is attached, that nothing else comes close.
- zingar 9mo agoI find Thinkpad trackpads really bad compared to Apple but maybe that’s just a factor of how fast the settings are by default?
- _kblcuk_ 9mo agoI think they mean https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_stick https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointing_stick
- mgiampapa 9mo agoTrackpad != trackpoint. The track point is the little eraser nub pointer embedded into the keyboard. Many thinkpad enthusiasts disable the trackpad entirely.
- robotresearcher 9mo agoTrackpoint is the nipple/clit pointer nub, not the trackpad. It's the Third Way that is not a mouse or trackpad. Oh, fifth I guess, with trackball and touchscreen.
- teaearlgraycold 9mo agoI disable the thinkpad trackpad in the bios. You only need the nib.
- mhitza 9mo agoThe trackpad is really bad compared with any other brand I've used.
- ofrzeta 9mo agoThere's nothing like Apple in that respect due to the fact they are using glass. Please correct me if I am wrong.
- bxparks 9mo agoWhat is the trackpoint equivalent of the two-finger scroll? I cannot imagine browsing the web without the two-finger scroll. Or pinch-zooming, how do you do that with a trackpoint?
- ofalkaed 9mo agoMiddle click + trackpoint gives you very smooth and precise xy scrolling.
- bxparks 9mo agoHow can that work? Middle click is the "paste" function in X11. If I'm in a terminal emulator, how can I two-finger scroll over the output history buffer? What if I am hovering over an edit box of a form on a web page. Doesn't that paste some random text into the edit box if I try to middle-click+trackpoint? Also, isn't the middle button much smaller than than the left and right buttons on a laptop? I recall constantly missing the middle button when trying to paste on laptops that had the middle button. Pinch-zooming: I assume that it's impossible to pinch zoom with a trackpoint. I don't know.. Trackpoint seems much less ergonomic and less useful than a trackpad to me.
- ofalkaed 9mo agoMiddle click is held when you scroll, only pastes if normal quick click. Never have had an issue with accidental pastes, unlike the trackpad which I do palm on occasion and cause various accidental events. You can zoom with ctrl-middle click, I used to have that rebound to just ctrl-trackpoint but in the situations where I am using the trackpoint I tend to prefer zooming with the keyboard so that binding got lost along the way. No idea if there is a binding for scrolling through the history, I never interact with my history that way, you can always do a custom binding. >Trackpoint seems much less ergonomic and less useful than a trackpad to me. You still have a trackpad, it is not either or. For more mouse heavy tasks I prefer the trackpad or trackball if it is handy. For things which require lots of back and forth between keyboard and mouse, I prefer the trackpoint. Everywhere else is a mix, scrolling a long website I tend to use the trackpoint but for general browsing tend towards the trackpad, editing this post I will use the trackpoint but will almost certainly use the trackpad to click "reply" since my fingers will be going back to general browsing mode. I just use which ever is most suited to the task.
- somat 9mo agoEspecially in a bouncing moving vehicle. I find touchscreens(phones) and the trackpads nearly unusable in such an environment. It is why was a bit horrified when I was watching the first spacex manned launch and saw their main interface was a touchscreen. I guess a mitigating factor in that case is the pilots probably don't have to fiddle with it during launch and it had one feature I would love if forced to use a touchscreen in a vehicle. A dedicated bar to stabilize your fingers on.