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The other vendors' implementations leave much to be desired. Dell and HP have no middle button on the mouse (at least on the models I've used), which makes scro
by joshuapants 12y ago
The other vendors' implementations leave much to be desired. Dell and HP have no middle button on the mouse (at least on the models I've used), which makes scrolling a pain.
- creshal 12y agoDell have a middle mouse button, but their pointing stick is far less accurate.
- joshuapants 12y agoAh, just looked it up. Some models have it and some don't. I never paid too much attention to them because their small laptops (I prefer the X-series Thinkpads) don't have a pointing stick at all.
- tselker 12y agoyes, I don't know why our friends at Lenovo took it out of their lower priced models and , too, please pester Lenovo, there is still so many ways the TrackPoint can be improved, it is worth the small development effort it would take!
- joshuapants 12y agoThanks for coming to HN to speak about this! I think I will probably write a letter to Lenovo regarding the TrackPoint (I've always found that real letters do worlds more than emails). I'm curious, have you tried any of the Ultranav desktop keyboards with TrackPoints? I'd love to have one on my desktop, but I'm not sure if they work as well as the ones on Thinkpads.
- tselker 12y agoThe middle button was added to placate my obsession with a second pointing device. We showed that you could use the middle button to accomplish what all my two TrackPoint prototypes did... they went for it... but ... i am sorry to say ... the scrolling consistency and control somehow (still) gets hijacked by Windows in some ways ... it should be revisited.