The trackpoint is the main reason I find it so hard to move away from Lenovo Thinkpads. The buttons under the spacebar alone are super convenient.
replyNot just hard - impossible. To the point of making it harder to find a job, as very few jobs let you use a non-Windows ThinkPad.
reply(I mean yeah, of course AuDHD makes it harder to find a job, no surprise there. But it's a shame that laptop manufacturers make it even harder.)
Dell and HP had trackpoints once (I had a HP one), maybe they still do.
replyThis. When I use my work laptop, I find myself pressing the spacebar constantly. edit: instead of "clicking"
replyThere is at least a whole line up of models from Lenovo. But for keyboards there is currently only tex.com.tw that sells new keyboards with track point.
replyAs an old user of thinkpads for years, on a Macbook the trackpad is as much under your thumb as the trackpoint is under your index finger and I find the trackpad far more accurate and less strain to use. In fact, my work-at-home setup is macbook pro, open face so i can use the keyboard+trackpad but external monitor so my posture isn't terrible.
reply> I don't understand why they are not popular at all and only a few manufacturers build them.
replyBecause they are ugly, just like ThinkPads that include them.
Beauty is in the eye of the chonky laptop holder.
replyI couldn't care less how ugly my keyboard is.
replySure, but normal people care about aesthetics, and unsurprisingly big corporations cater to that.
replySo Lenovo puts trackpoints on their ThinkPads, which is ugly. Also, big corporations cater to aesthetics. Which is it?
replyI'm not even interested so much on laptop keyboards. I always work on my desktop setup with an external keyboard.
replyIt's really hard to get an external keyboard with a track point. For laptops there are a lot of models to chose from, both used and new.
I didn't say corporations can't have an ugly laptop lineup.
replyI'm saying that the trend of consumer/business laptop lineups is to make all of them look similar to a MacBook, because that's what most people want. Of course there will always be exceptions, like the ThinkPad.