On 20 May 2016 19:01:20 GMT, Puckdropper
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On 20 May 2016 04:20:24 GMT, Puckdropper
puckdropper(at)yahoo(dot)com wrote:


Trackpoint. Stupidly only available on Thinkpad. Best. Mousing.
Experience. Ever. Ever!

Oh, and the keyboard isn't bad either. I remapped the two keys by the
arrow keys, so can use them for Page Up and Page Down or use the
originals above Backspace. Perhaps the most important keys for reading
long online documents.

Puckdropper
There are other manufactureres that use a trackpoint typee device -
but none that work as well and as consistently as the Lenovo ThinkPad
version.


Do any names come to mind? I don't know what I'd do if I had to go back
to that tortorous (sp?) touchpad. I'm just keeping my eyes open for when
this machine needs replaced.

Puckdropper

The crappy HP Elitebook, some NEC and Samsung, Fujitsu, some Del
Latitude, some Toshiba and soime Acer use a "track stick" type device
in the center of the keyboard.

My first laptop - an AST had the track-stick interface as well.